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Is Rana Tortellini with ham and mozzarella ultra-processed?

250 gram Pasta stuffed with meat Sold in Sweden, France and Norway

Pack of Rana Tortellini with ham and mozzarella

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:

  • 37 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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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

Filling 53% (cooked ham 28% (pork meat, salt, sugar, dextrose, natural flavourings), ricotta cheese (from milk), mozzarella cheese 10% (from milk), vegetable fibres (corn, potato), sunflower oil, cream (from milk), starches (from corn, potato), breadcrumbs (soft wheat flour, water, salt, yeast), cheese (from milk), natural flavourings, whey powder (from milk), butter (from milk)), Pasta 47% (soft wheat flour, eggs 30%, durum wheat semolina, allergens)

As written on the pack

Filling 53% (cooked ham 28% (pork meat, salt, sugar, dextrose, natural flavourings), ricotta cheese (from milk), mozzarella cheese (from milk) 10%, vegetable fibres (corn and potato), sunflower oil, cream (from milk), starches (from corn and potato), breadcrumbs (soft wheat flour, water, salt, yeast), grated cheese (from milk), natural flavourings, whey powder (from milk), butter (from milk)), Pasta 47% (soft wheat flour, eggs 30%, durum wheat semolina. ALLERGENS: see ingredients in bold. May contain nuts, fish, crustaceans, molluscs, mustard, soybeans, celery)

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.

  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

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.
  • Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
  • 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.
7 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.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • 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.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 9 pasta stuffed with meat

From least to most processed, this one ranks 9th. 89% of the pasta stuffed with meat 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 9 pasta stuffed with meat, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8001665700016, last edited 9 June 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.