Is Sainsbury's Spinach ravioli ultra-processed?

Ravioli with vegetables Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsbury's Spinach ravioli

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:

  • 18 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Pasta (Durum Wheat Semolina, Water), Spinach 21%, Wheat Flour, Vegetable Oil (processing marker) (Sunflower Vegetable Oil, Rapeseed Vegetable Oil), Corn, Fully Refined Soybean, Cannellini Beans 9%, Salt (processing marker), Water, Garlic, Lemon Juice, Black Pepper, Nutmeg, Yeast

As written on the pack

Pasta (Durum Wheat Semolina, Water), Spinach (21%), Wheat Flour, Vegetable Oil (Sunflower, Rapeseed, Corn, Fully Refined Soybean), Cannellini Beans (9%), Salt, Water, Garlic, Lemon Juice, Black Pepper, Nutmeg, Yeast

What makes it processed

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.
  • 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.

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

How the NOVA groups work

Among 9 ravioli with vegetables

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1st. 78% of the ravioli with vegetables 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 ravioli with vegetables, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00456739, last edited 9 September 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.