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Is Tesco finest Wild Mushroom Pasta ultra-processed?

215g Frozen ready-made meals Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Tesco finest Wild Mushroom 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:

  • 32 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Cooked Pasta (Durum Wheat Semolina, Water), Wild 11%, Cultivated Mushrooms 11% (Yellow Honey Mushroom, Straw Mushroom, Boletus Mushroom, Chanterelle Mushroom), Rapeseed Oil, Water, Pecorino Medium Fat Hard Cheese Milk 4%, Parsley, Sunflower Oil, Basil, Mushroom, Malt Vinegar Barley, Salt, Lemon Juice, Sugar, Cornflour, Mustard Seed, Spirit Vinegar, Porcini Mushroom, White Wine Vinegar, Balsamic Vinegar (Grape Must, Wine Vinegar), Garlic Purée, Black Pepper, Cinnamon, Clove

As written on the pack

Cooked Pasta (Durum Wheat Semolina, Water), Wild and Cultivated Mushrooms 11% (Yellow Honey Mushroom, Straw Mushroom, Boletus Mushroom, Chanterelle Mushroom), Rapeseed Oil, Water, Pecorino Medium Fat Hard Cheese Milk 4%, Parsley, Sunflower Oil, Basil, Mushroom, Malt Vinegar Barley, Salt, Lemon Juice, Sugar, Cornflour, Mustard Seed, Spirit Vinegar, Porcini Mushroom Powder, White Wine Vinegar, Balsamic Vinegar (Grape Must, Wine Vinegar), Garlic Purée, Black Pepper, Cinnamon, Clove.

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.
  • 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 84 frozen ready-made meals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 13th. 69% of the frozen ready-made meals 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 84 frozen ready-made meals, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 03316207, last edited 26 June 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.