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Is Specially Selected Porcini, Chanterelle & Truffle Mezzelune ultra-processed?

Stuffed pastas Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Specially Selected Porcini, Chanterelle & Truffle Mezzelune

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:

  • 26 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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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

wheat flour, water, asiago cheese, free range egg 11%, durum wheat semolina, sunflower oil, lactose, egg white, cornflour, porcini mushroom 2%, butter, salt, maize starch, chanterelle mushroom 1%, onion, potato fibre, yeast, parsley, dried porcini mushrooms, flavouring, truffle, corn starch, black pepper, garlic, artificial flavourings, preservativo

As written on the pack

wheat flour, water, asiago cheese pdo (milk), pasteurised free range egg (11%), durum wheat semolina, sunflower oil, lactose (milk), pasteurised egg white, cornflour, porcini mushroom (2%), butter (milk), salt, maize starch, chanterelle mushroom (1%), onion, potato fibre, yeast, parsley, dried porcini mushrooms, flavouring, truffle, corn starch, black pepper, garlic, allergy advice: for allergens, see ingredients in bold, may also contain nuts, fish, crustacean and soya, no artificial flavourings or preservativo

What makes it ultra-processed

Cosmetic additives

Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

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.
  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
6 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.
  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • 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 149 stuffed pastas

From least to most processed, this one ranks 102nd. 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 149 stuffed pastas, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600321226, 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.