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Is Myprotein Meat Feast Pasta ultra-processed?

550g Frozen ready-made meals Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Myprotein Meat Feast Pasta

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:

  • 91 ingredients
  • 7 additives
  • Nutri-Score B

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Cooked Fusilli Pasta 28% (Water, Durum Wheat Semolina), Pork 15%, Chicken Meatball 15% (Pork 8.85% (Pork, Water, Pork Rind), Chicken Breast 4.8%, Garlic, Citrus Fibre, Water, Toasted Kibbled Onion, Salt, Coriander, Stabiliser (Triphosphates), Onion, Black Pepper, White Pepper, Yeast Extract, Smoke Flavouring, Garlic, Antioxidant (Ascorbic Acid), Mace, White Pepper, Paprika Extract, Sage, Coriander, Cayenne), Chopped Tomatoes (Tomatoes, Tomato Juice), Passata, Minced Beef 8%, Eatlean™ Cheese, Water, Pepperoni 2.5% (Pork 1.9%, Pork Fat, Salt, Dextrose, Sugar, Antioxidants (Sodium Erythorbate), Extracts of Rosemary, Star Anise, Paprika Extract, Caraway, Rosemary Extract, Cumin Seed, Garlic Extract, White Pepper, Chilli, Preservative (Sodium Nitrite)), Onion, Beef Stock (Yeast Extract, Beef Bone Stock, Water, Salt), Garlic Purée, Tomato Paste, Jalapeño (Jalapeño Peppers, Salt, Water, White Wine Vinegar), Modified Maize Starch, Smoked Paprika, Paprika, Reduced Sodium Salt (Salt, Potassium Chloride, Magnesium Chloride), Parsley, Yeast Extract, Oregano, Cracked Black Pepper, Garlic, Fennel, Onion, Onion, Barley Malt Extract, Chilli, Onion, Sweetener (Sucralose)

Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E250 Sodium nitrite , E300 Ascorbic acid , E316 Sodium erythorbate , E392 Extracts of rosemary , E451 Triphosphates , E955 Sucralose

As written on the pack

Cooked Fusilli Pasta (28%) (Water, Durum Wheat Semolina), Cooked Pork & Chicken Meatball (15%) (Pork (59%) (Pork, Water, Pork Rind), Chicken Breast (32%), Garlic, Citrus Fibre, Water, Toasted Kibbled Onion, Salt, Ground Coriander, Stabiliser: Triphosphates; Toasted Onion Powder, Ground Black Pepper, Ground White Pepper, Yeast Extract, Smoke Flavouring, Garlic Powder, Antioxidant: Ascorbic Acid; Mace Extract, White Pepper Extract, Paprika Extract, Sage Extract, Coriander Extract, Cayenne Extract), Chopped Tomatoes (Tomatoes, Tomato Juice), Passata, Minced Beef (8%), Eatlean™ Cheese (Milk) (8%), Water, Smoked Pepperoni (2.5%) (Pork (76%), Pork Fat, Salt, Dextrose, Sugar, Antioxidants: Sodium Erythorbate, Extracts of Rosemary; Star Anise, Paprika Extract, Ground Caraway, Rosemary Extract, Ground Cumin Seed, Garlic Extract, White Pepper Extract, Chilli Extract, Preservative: Sodium Nitrite), Onion, Beef Stock (Yeast Extract (contains Barley), Beef Bone Stock, Water, Salt), Garlic Purée, Tomato Paste, Sliced Jalapeño (Jalapeño Peppers, Salt, Water, White Wine Vinegar), Modified Maize Starch, Smoked Paprika, Paprika, Reduced Sodium Salt (Salt, Potassium Chloride, Magnesium Chloride), Parsley, Yeast Extract (contains Barley), Oregano, Cracked Black Pepper, Garlic Powder, Ground Fennel, Roasted Onion Powder, Onion Powder, Barley Malt Extract, Chilli Powder, Roasted Onion Granules, Sweetener: Sucralose.

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.

  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • E451 Triphosphates Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.
  • E955 Sucralose Sucralose is a sweetener made by chlorinating sugar.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Sweetener Sweeteners give sweetness with few or no calories, many at hundreds of times the strength of sugar.
  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.

Substances rarely used in home kitchens

Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
6 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.

  • E250 Sodium nitrite Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 84 frozen ready-made meals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 80th. 69% of the frozen ready-made meals 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 84 frozen ready-made meals, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5010482925727, last edited 31 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.