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Is M&S Food Butternut Squash Mezzelune ultra-processed?

250 g Stuffed pastas Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of M&S Food Butternut Squash Mezzelune

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:

  • 23 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score D

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Egg Pasta 40%, Wheatflour, Egg, Durum Wheat Semolina, Butternut Squash 24%, Whipping Cream, Wheatflour, Vegetable Oils (Sunflower Vegetable Oils, Rapeseed Vegetable Oils), Mozzarella Cheese, Medium Fat Hard Cheese 2.5% (Medium Fat Hard Cheese, Preservative (Lysozyme)), Unsalted Butter, Sugar, Salt, Rice Flour, Cornflour, Sage, Yeast, Black Pepper

Additives: E1105 Lysozyme

As written on the pack

Egg Pasta (40%), Wheatflour (contains Gluten), Pasteurised Egg, Durum Wheat Semolina (contains Gluten)), Butternut Squash (24%), Whipping Cream (Milk), Wheatflour (contains Gluten), Vegetable Oils (Sunflower, Rapeseed), Mozzarella Cheese (Milk) (3%), Medium Fat Hard Cheese (2.5%) (Medium Fat Hard Cheese (Milk), Preservative: Lysozyme (Egg)), Unsalted Butter (Milk), Sugar, Salt, Rice Flour, Cornflour, Sage, Yeast, Ground Black Pepper

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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

Preservation and traditional processing

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

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 149 stuffed pastas

From least to most processed, this one ranks 33rd. 76% of the stuffed pastas 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 149 stuffed pastas, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00029360, 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.