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Is Food Box Cabbage Casserole ultra-processed?

400 g Meals with meat Sold in Sweden

Pack of Food Box Cabbage Casserole

Yes, it's ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 33 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Cabbage 23%, pork, beef 21%, cauliflower, water, broad beans, onion, eggs, carrot, rice (water, rice), meat stock (water, chicken, beef, salt), brown sugar, honey, tomato puree, spices (parsley, black pepper, onion, thyme), rice starch, salt, potato fiber, rapeseed oil, coloring (sugar), mushroom, white wine vinegar

As written on the pack

Cabbage (23%), pork*/beef* (21%), cauliflower, water, broad beans, onion, EGGS, carrot, boiled rice (water, rice), meat stock (water, chicken, beef, salt), brown sugar, honey, tomato puree, spices (parsley, black pepper, onion powder, thyme), rice starch, salt, potato fiber, rapeseed oil, coloring (caramelized sugar), mushroom concentrate, white wine vinegar. * Origin: EU.

What makes it ultra-processed

Cosmetic additives

Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.

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.

  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
5 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.
  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • 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 482 meals with meat

From least to most processed, this one ranks 224th. 77% of the meals with meat 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 482 meals with meat, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7310960049241, 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.