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Is Giovanni Rana Chicken Mozzarella Tortellini ultra-processed?

20 oz Cereals and their products Sold in the United States

Pack of Giovanni Rana Chicken Mozzarella Tortellini

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:

  • 43 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score D

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Filling (chicken breast meat, ricotta (whey, whole milk, cream, vinegar), mozzarella cheese (cultured milk, salt, enzymes), bread crumbs (wheat flour, yeast, salt), seasoning (water, sunflower oil, potato starch, casein, salt), sunflower oil, lactose, cornstarch, nonfat dry milk, cellulose, psyllium fiber, and less of salt 2%, autolyzed yeast extract, natural chicken flavor (natural flavor, maltodextrin, yeast extract, salt, lactic acid, chicken fat, chicken), natural flavors, spice), pasta (durum wheat flour, eggs, water)

Additives: E270 Lactic acid

As written on the pack

Filling (chicken breast meat, ricotta (whey, whole milk, cream, vinegar), mozzarella cheese (pasteurized cultured milk, salt, enzymes), bread crumbs (wheat flour, yeast, salt), seasoning (water, sunflower oil, potato starch, casein, salt), sunflower oil, lactose, cornstarch, nonfat dry milk, cellulose and psyllium fiber, 2% or less of salt, autolyzed yeast extract, natural chicken flavor (natural flavor, maltodextrin, yeast extract, salt, lactic acid, chicken fat, chicken), natural flavors, spice). pasta (durum wheat flour, eggs, water).

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.

  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

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.

  • Casein Casein is the main protein in milk, separated industrially and used to bind, emulsify and add protein.
  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
  • Milk proteins Milk proteins are proteins separated from milk, such as caseinates and whey protein concentrates, added to adjust texture or raise protein content.
  • Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
  • 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.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 5,078 cereals and their products

From least to most processed, this one ranks 4827th. 57% of the cereals and their products 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 5,078 cereals and their products, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0877448003562, last edited 21 September 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.