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Is Lean Cuisine Classic Cheese Ravioli with tomato sauce ultra-processed?

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Pack of Lean Cuisine Classic Cheese Ravioli with tomato sauce

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:

  • 40 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score B

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Tomatoes, water, durum flour, semolina (durum wheat flour, semolina, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), ricotta cheese (whey, milk, cream, vinegar), tomato juice, ricotta cheese (whey, skim milk, vinegar, xanthan gum, vitamin a palmitate), and less of sugar 2%, eggs, romano cheese made from sheep's milk (sheep's milk, salt, enzymes), spices, modified food starch, salt, garlic, dried garlic, soybean oil, dried onions, potassium chloride, citric acid, xanthan gum, calcium chloride

Additives: E330 Citric acid , E415 Xanthan gum

As written on the pack

Tomatoes, water, enriched durum flour and semolina (durum wheat flour, semolina, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), ricotta cheese (whey, milk, cream, vinegar), tomato juice, fat free ricotta cheese (pasteurized whey, skim milk, vinegar, xanthan gum, vitamin a palmitate), 2% or less of sugar, eggs, romano cheese made from sheep's milk (cultured sheep's milk, salt, enzymes), spices, modified food starch, salt, garlic, dried garlic, soybean oil, dried onions, potassium chloride, citric acid, xanthan gum, calcium chloride.

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.
  • 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.

  • 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.
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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 544 pasta dishes

From least to most processed, this one ranks 379th. 72% of the pasta dishes 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 0013800166869, last edited 12 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.