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Is M&S Food Roasted Butternut, Lentil & Goats Cheese with a Sweet & Tangy Balsamic Dressing ultra-processed?

200g Prepared couscous Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of M&S Food Roasted Butternut, Lentil & Goats Cheese with a Sweet & Tangy Balsamic Dressing

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:

  • 17 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Cooked Wheatflour Couscous 21% (Water Wheatflour), Cooked Green Lentils 18% (Water, Green Lentils), Cooked Spelt (Water, Spelt), Butternut Squash 12%, Goat's Cheese, Red Onions, Vegetable Oil (Sunflower Vegetable Oil, Rapeseed Vegetable Oil), Balsamic Vinegar Pumpkin Seeds Honey Parsley Concentrated Apple Juice Salt Garlic Purée Cornflour, Dried Mustard Vinegar Caramelised Sugar Syrup, Ground Black Pepper Rosemary Rapeseed Oil Mustard Husk

As written on the pack

Cooked Wheatflour Couscous (21%) (Water Wheatflour (contains Gluten)). Cooked Green Lentils (18%) (Water. Green Lentils). Cooked Spelt (Water. Spelt (Wheat contains Gluten)). Butternut Squash (12%) Goat's Cheese (Milk) (7%). Red Onions. Vegetable Oil (Sunflower/Rapeseed) . Balsamic Vinegar Pumpkin Seeds Honey Parsley Concentrated Apple Juice Salt Garlic Purée Cornflour. ● Dried Mustard Vinegar Caramelised Sugar Syrup. Ground Black Pepper Rosemary Rapeseed Oil Mustard Husk

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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

  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

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 16 prepared couscous

From least to most processed, this one ranks 3rd. 69% of the prepared couscous 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 16 prepared couscous, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 29157303, last edited 9 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.