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Is Lidl Pesto alla genovese ultra-processed?

550 g Green pestos Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Lidl Pesto alla genovese

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:

  • 46 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed green pestos

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

nl pesto with basil, oil foil, cashew nuts 5%, cheese 4.7%, milk, salt, animal rennet, lysozyme, vole yoghurt, milk, sugar, salt, pecorino romano 1.3% (sheep's milk, salt, animal rennet), pine nuts, garlic, lactic acid, ascorbic acid, flavouring, vi, celery, mustard, unopened at least shelf life until end (see lid edge), keep refrigerated at max after opening, 7°c and consume within 5 days, mix the pesto with cooked pasta and rist, use the pesto as a spread for bruschetta and as a herb sauce for ves and vigerote, lid, ltd, lidl house, kingston road, surbiton, kt5 9nu, lidl teland gmbh, main road, tallaght, dublin 24, ldl nederland gmbh, p, o, box 198, nl-1270 ad huizen 40, c 33 19

Additives: E1105 Lysozyme , E270 Lactic acid , E300 Ascorbic acid

As written on the pack

nl pesto with basil, oil foil, 5% cashew nuts, 4,7% cheese (milk, salt, animal rennet, preservative: lysozyme (egg), vole yoghurt (milk, sugar, salt, 1,3% pecorino romano pdo (sheep's milk, salt, animal rennet), pine nuts, garlic, acid: lactic acid, antioxidant: ascorbic acid, flavouring, may contain traces of other nuts, peanuts, vi, celery and mustard, unopened at least shelf life until end: see lid edge, keep refrigerated at max after opening, 7°c and consume within 5 days, mix the pesto with cooked pasta or rist, use the pesto as a spread for bruschetta or as a herb sauce for ves and vigerote, lid, great britain ltd, lidl house, 14 kingston road, surbiton, kt5 9nu, lidl teland gmbh, main road, tallaght, dublin 24/ ldl nederland gmbh, p,o, box 198, nl-1270 ad huizen 40 / 20 c 33 19

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.

  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
3 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.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 79 green pestos

From least to most processed, this one ranks 59th. 49% of the green pestos 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 79 green pestos, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4056489441403, last edited 8 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.