Is Lidl Tomato Pasta Sauce with onion and garlic ultra-processed?

500 g Tomato sauces Sold in the United Kingdom and Sweden

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Salt
Sugar

15 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score C

Less processed tomato sauces

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

ingredients 62% tomatoes, tomato purée 24%, onions 4%, lemon juice from concentrate, sugar (processing marker), garlic purée 1%, maize stach, salt (processing marker), garlic purée, onion, basil, rapeseed oil, parsley, oregano, de place away day day

As written on the pack

ingredients 62% tomatoes, 24% partially reconstituted tomato purée, 4% onions, lemon juice from concentrate, sugar, 1% garlic purée, maize stach, salt, roasted garlic purée, onion powder, basil, rapeseed oil, parsley, oregano, de place away day day

What makes it processed

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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 442 tomato sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 182nd. 40% of the tomato 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 442 tomato sauces, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20889241, 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.