Is Tesco red lasange sauce ultra-processed?

500 Sold in the United Kingdom

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Salt
Sugar

10 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score B

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Tomato 65%, Tomato Purée 25%, Onion 1.5%, Sugar (processing marker), Cornflour, Salt (processing marker), Concentrated Lemon Juice, Herbs, Garlic Purée, Black Pepper

As written on the pack

Tomato (65%), Partially Reconstituted Tomato Purée (25%), Onion (1.5%), Sugar, Cornflour, Salt, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Herbs, Garlic Purée, Black Pepper.

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.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5052319012033, 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.
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 B (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.