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Is Sainsbury's taste the difference Prawn chilli & garlic ravioli ultra-processed?

Stuffed pastas Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsbury's taste the difference Prawn chilli & garlic 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:

  • 50 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Fresh Egg Pasta 40% (Wheat Flour, Free Range Egg 21%, Durum Wheat Semolina, Water), Prawn (Pandalus borealis), Water, Breadcrumbs (Wheat Flour, Salt, Yeast), Bechamel Sauce (Cows' Milk, Wheat Flour, Water, Butter (Cows' Milk), Corn Starch, Sugar, Salt), Sunflower Oil, Mozzarella 6% (Cows' Milk), Hot Pepper Cream 2.5% (Chilli Peppers 1.35%, Sunflower Oil, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Sundried Tomato, Basil, Garlic, Salt), Wheat Flour, Lobster Broth (Lobster (Homarus Americanus, Crusteacean), Water, Onion, White Wine, Tomato, Olive Oil, Garlic), Salt, Butter (Cows' Milk), Garlic 0.4%, Lemon Juice, Chives, Lemon Peel 0.1%

As written on the pack

Fresh Egg Pasta (40%) (Wheat Flour, Free Range Egg (21%), Durum Wheat Semolina, Water), Prawn (Pandalus borealis) (Crustacean) (14%), Water, Breadcrumbs (Wheat Flour, Salt, Yeast), Bechamel Sauce (Cows' Milk, Wheat Flour, Water, Butter (Cows' Milk), Corn Starch, Sugar, Salt), Sunflower Oil, Mozzarella (6%) (Cows' Milk), Hot Pepper Cream (2.5%) (Chilli Peppers (54%), Sunflower Oil, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Sundried Tomato, Basil, Garlic, Salt), Wheat Flour, Lobster Broth (Lobster (Homarus Americanus) (Crusteacean), Water, Onion, White Wine, Tomato, Olive Oil, Garlic), Salt, Butter (Cows' Milk), Garlic (0.4%), Lemon Juice, Chives, Lemon Peel (0.1%).

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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 148 stuffed pastas

From least to most processed, this one ranks 31st. 76% of the stuffed pastas 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 148 stuffed pastas, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00434799, 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.