Is Findus Tagliatelle Chicken ultra-processed?

1000 G Meals with chicken Sold in Sweden

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Glucose

40 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score C

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Kokt pasta 32% (durumvetemjöl), vatten, ägg, olja (solros), salt (processing marker), Pepparsås 29% (Vatten), tomatpuré, grädde, tomater, morötter, lök, majsstärkelse (processing marker), rapsolja, vitlök, salt (processing marker), grönsaksbuljong (druvsocker (ultra-processing marker), grönsakskoncentrat, morot, lök, purjolök, schalottenlök, salt (processing marker), paprika, tomat), svartpeppar, paprika, karamelliserat socker (processing marker), Grönsaker 25% (Broccoli 10%), morötter 8%, paprika 7%, kyckling 13.5% (Kycklingbröst 13%), tapiokastärkelse (processing marker), salt (processing marker), druvsocker (ultra-processing marker)

As written on the pack

Kokt pasta 32 %: durumvetemjöl, vatten, ägg, vegetabilisk olja (solros - och raps i varierande proportioner), salt. Pepparsås 29 %: Vatten, tomatpuré, grädde (mjölk), tomater, morötter, lök, majsstärkelse, rapsolja, vitlök, salt, grönsaksbuljongpulver (druvsocker, grönsakskoncentrat [morot, lök, purjolök, schalottenlök, salt, paprikapulver, tomatpulver), svartpeppar, paprikapulver, karamelliserat socker. Grönsaker 25 %: Broccoli 10 %, morötter 8 %, paprika 7%. Stekt kyckling 13,5%: Kycklingbröst 13%, tapiokastärkelse, salt, druvsocker.

What makes it ultra-processed

Substances rarely used in home kitchens

Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.

Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.

4 ingredients that would only make it processed

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 213 meals with chicken

From least to most processed, this one ranks 60th. 79% of the meals with chicken here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 213 meals with chicken, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7310500184180, last edited 2 April 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of C (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.