Is Sainsbury's Beef, pork & red wine ragu cappellacci ultra-processed?
It's processed, but not ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Whole foods combined with:
- 33 ingredients
- 1 additive
- Nutri-Score C
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Fresh Egg Pasta (Wheat Flour, Free Range Egg, Durum Wheat Semolina, Water), British Beef 11%, British Pork 11%, Vegetable Oil (processing marker) (Sunflower Vegetable Oil, Rapeseed Vegetable Oil), Corn, Fully Refined Soybean, Merlot Red Wine 6%, Rice Flour, Tomato Purée, Wheat Flour, Grana Padano Cheese (processing marker) (Cows' Milk, Preservative (processing marker) (Lysozyme)), Tomato Paste, Tomato, Butter (processing marker) (Cows' Milk), Onion, Salt (processing marker), Carrot, Oregano, Garlic, Yeast, Black Pepper, Rosemary, Sage
Additives: E1105 Lysozyme
As written on the pack
Fresh Egg Pasta (Wheat Flour, Free Range Egg, Durum Wheat Semolina, Water), British Beef (11%), British Pork (11%), Vegetable Oil (Sunflower, Rapeseed, Corn, Fully Refined Soybean), Merlot Red Wine (6%), Rice Flour, Tomato Purée, Wheat Flour, Grana Padano Cheese (Cows' Milk, Preservative: Lysozyme (Egg)), Tomato Paste, Roasted Tomato, Butter (Cows' Milk), Onion, Salt, Carrot, Oregano Extract, Garlic, Yeast, Black Pepper, Rosemary, Sage
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.
- Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
Preservation and traditional processing
Keep food safe or ferment it, like preservatives and cultures. A sign of processing, not ultra-processing.
- Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
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.
Among 69 beef dishes
From least to most processed, this one ranks 28th. 55% of the beef dishes here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00471138, last edited 27 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 C (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.