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Is Leggo's Sauce for Bolognese with red wine, chunky tomato & herbs ultra-processed?

500 g Pasta sauces Sold in Australia and New Zealand

Pack of Leggo's Sauce for Bolognese with red wine, chunky tomato & herbs

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:

  • 20 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score A

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Tomatoes 74% (reconstituted, diced), tomato paste 8%, vegetables 7% (onion, carrot), red wine 3%, sugar, thickener (1442), canola oil, yeast extract, garlic, salt herbs (parsley, oregano, rosemary, thyme), рepper

Additives: E1442 Hydroxypropyl distarch phosphate

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E1442 Hydroxypropyl distarch phosphate.

As written on the pack

Tomatoes (74%) (reconstituted. diced), tomato paste (8%), vegetables (7%) (onion, carrot), red wine (3%), sugar, thickener (1442), canola oil, yeast extract, garlic, salt herbs (parsley, oregano, rosemary, thyme), рepper.

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.

  • E1442 Hydroxypropyl distarch phosphate Hydroxypropyl distarch phosphate is a chemically modified starch used to thicken and stabilise desserts, sauces and soups.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
1 ingredient that would only make it processed

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 317 pasta sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 258th. 49% of the pasta sauces 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 317 pasta sauces, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 9300645111149, last edited 12 November 2025), 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 A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.