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Is Mediterra Spanakopita ultra-processed?

26.45 oz Frozen cakes and pastries Sold in the United States

Pack of Mediterra Spanakopita

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:

  • 27 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed sweet snacks

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

Wheat flour, spinach, water, vegetable oils (palm oil, sunflower oil), mizithra cheese (cow's, sheep's, and goat's milk whey, salt), onion, leek, feta cheese (sheep, goat's milk, salt, microbial rennet, bacterial cultures), wheat semolina, corn starch, salt, wheat rusk, sugar, mixed spices, dill, black pepper

As written on the pack

Wheat flour, spinach, water, vegetable oils (palm oil and sunflower oil), mizithra cheese (cow's, sheep's, and goat's milk whey, salt), onion, leek, feta cheese (pasteurized sheep and goat's milk, salt, microbial rennet, bacterial cultures), wheat semolina, corn starch, salt, wheat rusk, sugar, mixed spices, dill, 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.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • 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.

  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 13 frozen cakes and pastries

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2nd. 85% of the frozen cakes and pastries 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 13 frozen cakes and pastries, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0859764006960, last edited 4 May 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.