Is Heinz Pasta Shapes ultra-processed?
It's processed, but not ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Whole foods combined with:
- 14 ingredients
- No additives
- Nutri-Score B
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Tomatoes 46%, Pasta Shapes 45% (Water, Durum Wheat Semolina), Water, Sugar (processing marker), Modified Comflour, Salt (processing marker), Acid, Citric Aci Spice, Garlic Salt, Onion Extract Spice Extract, Iron Sulphate, Vitamin D
As written on the pack
Tomatoes (46%), Pasta Shapes (45%, Water, Durum Wheat Semolina), Water, Sugar, Modified Comflour, Salt, Acid - Citric Aci Spice, Garlic Salt, Onion Extract Spice Extract, Iron Sulphate, Vitamin D. May contain Egg.
What makes it processed
Culinary ingredients
Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.
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.
Among 43 instant pasta
From least to most processed, this one ranks 12th. 60% of the instant pasta here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000157071613, last edited 19 March 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
- 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 B (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.