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Is Harriet’s Garden Pasta Salad Pesto & Cheese ultra-processed?

150g Instant pasta with cheese Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Harriet’s Garden Pasta Salad Pesto & Cheese

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

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

Whole foods combined with:

  • 24 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Pasta 75% (Water, WHEAT Semolina), Green Pesto 15% (Basil, Sunflower Oil, Olive Oil, Cheese, Pumpkin Seeds, Sunflower Seeds, Pine Nuts, Salt, Garlic, Sugar, Black Pepper), Cheese, Olive Oil, Sugar, Salt, Preservative (e202), Acidifiers (e330), e270

Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate , E270 Lactic acid , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Pasta 75% (Water, WHEAT Semolina (Contains GLUTEN)). Green Pesto 15% (Basil, Sunflower Oil, Olive Oil, Cheese (MILK), Pumpkin Seeds, Sunflower Seeds, Pine Nuts, Salt, Garlic Powder, Sugar, Black Pepper), Cheese Flakes (MILK), Olive Oil, Sugar, Salt, Preservative: E202, Acidifiers: E330, E270

What makes it processed

Processed ingredients

Processed foods in their own right, such as cheese or milk powder.

  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

Culinary ingredients

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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

Preservation and traditional processing

Keep food safe or ferment it, like preservatives and cultures. A sign of processing, not ultra-processing.

  • E202 Potassium sorbate Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 9 instant pasta with cheese

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2nd. 78% of the instant pasta with cheese 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 9 instant pasta with cheese, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8716101069724, last edited 27 March 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.