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Is Sainsbury's Tomato & Burrata Girasoli ultra-processed?

Pasta dishes Sold in the United Kingdom

Yes, it's ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 42 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed pasta dishes

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

Fresh Egg Pasta (Wheat Flour, Free Range Egg, Durum Wheat Semolina, Water), Tomatoes 11%, Cows' Milk, Burrata Cheese 9% (Cheese (Cows' Milk), Acidity Regulator (Citric Acid)), Breadcrumbs (Wheat Flour, Salt, Yeast), Lactose (Cows' Milk), Mozzarella Cheese (Cows' Milk), Basil, Whey Powder (Cows Milk), Vegetable Oil (Sunflower Vegetable Oil, Rapeseed Vegetable Oil), Corn, Fully Refined Soybean, Tomato Purée, Water, Cornflour, Wheat Flour, Cream (Cows Milk), Sugar, Sundried Tomato, Salt, Onion, Tomato Paste, Garlic, Acidity Regulator (Sodium Carbonates)

Additives: E330 Citric acid , E500 Sodium carbonates

As written on the pack

250g Fresh Egg Pasta (Wheat Flour, Free Range Egg, Durum Wheat Semolina, Water), Roasted Tomatoes (11%), Semi Skimmed Cows' Milk, Burrata Cheese (9%) (Cheese (Cows' Milk), Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid), Breadcrumbs (Wheat Flour, Salt, Yeast), Lactose (Cows' Milk), Mozzarella Cheese (Cows' Milk), Basil, Whey Powder (Cows Milk), Vegetable Oil (Sunflower, Rapeseed, Corn, Fully Refined Soybean), Tomato Purée, Water, Cornflour, Wheat Flour, Cream (Cows Milk), Sugar, Sundried Tomato, Salt, Onion, Tomato Paste, Garlic, Acidity Regulator: Sodium Carbonates. Allergy advice:

What makes it ultra-processed

Substances rarely used in home kitchens

Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
  • Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
5 ingredients that would only make it processed

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 544 pasta dishes

From least to most processed, this one ranks 313th. 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 5063334006488, last edited 9 June 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.