Is Saarioinen spaghetti och köttfärssås ultra-processed?

320 g Bolognese sauces Sold in Finland

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Salt
Starch
Sugar
Sauce

23 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score B

Less processed pasta sauces

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

Spaghetti (spaghetti (vete), Köttfärssås (processing marker)), vatten, tomat, kycklingkött 15%, lök, nötkött 5%, vispgrädde, majsstärkelse (processing marker), sojasås (processing marker) (ättika), salt med jod (processing marker), vitlök, chilipaprikapasta, farinsocker (processing marker), basilika, karamelliserat socker (processing marker), oregano, svartpeppar, timjan, Proteinhaltig

As written on the pack

Spaghetti 160 g: spaghetti (vete). Kan innehålla spår av ägg. Köttfärssås 160 g: vatten, tomat, maskinurbenat kycklingkött 15 % (Finland), lök, nötkött 5 % (Finland), laktosfri vispgrädde, majsstärkelse, sojasås (ättika), salt med jod, vitlök, chilipaprikapasta, farinsocker, basilika, karamelliserat socker, oregano, svartpeppar, timjan. Laktosfri. Proteinhaltig.

What makes it processed

Processed ingredients

Processed foods in their own right, such as cheese or milk powder.

Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.

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.

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 32 bolognese sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 12th. 50% of the bolognese sauces 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 32 bolognese sauces, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 6412000031672, last edited 9 August 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.