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Is Inspired cuisine Beef lasagne ultra-processed?

1kg Meals with meat Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Inspired cuisine Beef lasagne

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:

  • 41 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score C

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

water, beef 20%, egg lasagne 15% (durum wheat semolina, water, whole egg, salt), italian tomato concentrate 8%, gouda cheese 5%, carrot, onion, modified maize starch, canola oil, skimmed milk, wheat flour, red wine, maltodextrin, milk proteins, salt, grapefruit, lactose, sugar, flavouring, thickener (xanthan gum), spirit vinegar, sugar, olive, dried basil, yeast extract, caramelised sugar syrup, dried garlic, black pepper, parsnip, dextrose, lovage, spice extracts, dried onion, curry, ginger powder, fenugreek leaf

Additives: E415 Xanthan gum

As written on the pack

water, beef (20%), egg lasagne (15%) (durum wheat semolina, water, pasteurised whole egg, salt), italian tomato concentrate (8%), gouda cheese (5%) (milk), carrot, onion, modified maize starch, canola oil, dried skimmed milk, wheat flour, red wine, maltodextrin, milk proteins, salt, grapefruit extract, lactose (milk), sugar, flavouring (contains milk), thickener: xanthan gum, spirit vinegar powder, sugar, olive extract, dried basil, yeast extract, caramelised sugar syrup, dried garlic, black pepper, parsnip powder, dextrose, lovage powder, spice extracts, dried onion, curry leaf powder, ginger powder, fenugreek leaf powder,

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.

  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.

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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • 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.
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.
  • 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.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 482 meals with meat

From least to most processed, this one ranks 474th. 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.

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About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600003665, 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.