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Is La Pasta Inc Spinach & cheese ravioli ultra-processed?

9 oz Cereals and their products Sold in the United States

Pack of La Pasta Inc Spinach & cheese ravioli

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:

  • 34 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Less processed cereals and their products

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

Ricotta cheese (pasteurized whole milk, vinegar, salt), spinach, bread crumbs (wheat flour, sugar, yeast, salt), parmesan cheese (pasteurized part-skim milk, cheese culture, salt, enzyme, powdered cellulose to prevent caking), mozzarella cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes powdered cellulose to prevent caking), garlic evo canola oil, black pepper, nutmeg, durum flour (durum flour, niacin, thiamine, riboflavin, folic acid), pasturized liquid whole eggs, spinach powder, filtered water, sea salt

As written on the pack

Ricotta cheese (pasteurized whole milk, vinegar, salt.), fresh spinach, bread crumbs (wheat flour, sugar, yeast, salt), parmesan cheese (pasteurized part-skim milk, cheese culture, salt, enzyme, powdered cellulose to prevent caking), mozzarella cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes powdered cellulose to prevent caking), garlic evo canola oil, black pepper, nutmeg, durum flour (durum flour, niacin, thiamine, riboflavin, folic acid.), pasturized liquid whole eggs, spinach powder, filtered water and sea salt.

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.

Preservation and traditional processing

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

  • Microbial culture Microbial cultures ferment foods such as yoghurt, cheese and sourdough.
  • Enzyme Enzymes carry out traditional processes such as cheese making and baking.

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 5,078 cereals and their products

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1889th. 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 0079706021053, last edited 2 December 2024), 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.