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Is Sainsbury's Taste the difference Pesto & Parmesan Pasta ultra-processed?

Pasta dishes Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsbury's Taste the difference Pesto & Parmesan Pasta

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

Cooked Pasta 65% (Water, Durum Wheat Semolina), Rapeseed Oil, Spinach, Regato Medium Fat Hard Cheese (Cows' Milk), Basil, Lemon Juice, Water, Pine Nuts, Parmigiano Reggiano Medium Fat Hard Cheese 1.5% (Cows' Milk), Salt, Roast Galtic Purée, Potato Starch, Black Pepper, Parmigiano Reggiano is made with unpasteurised milk

As written on the pack

Cooked Pasta (65%) (Water, Durum Wheat Semolina), Rapeseed Oil, Spinach, Regato Medium Fat Hard Cheese (Cows' Milk), Basil, Lemon Juice, Water, Pine Nuts, Parmigiano Reggiano Medium Fat Hard Cheese (1.5%) (Cows' Milk), Salt, Roast Galtic Purée, Potato Starch, Black Pepper. Parmigiano Reggiano is made with unpasteurised milk.

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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.

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 544 pasta dishes

From least to most processed, this one ranks 40th. 72% of the pasta dishes 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 544 pasta dishes, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 01897883, last edited 5 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.