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Is Tesco Spaghetti bolognese ultra-processed?

400g Bolognese-style pasta Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Tesco Spaghetti bolognese

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:

  • 26 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Cooked Pasta (Water, Durum Wheat Semolina), Tomato, Beef 23%, Tomato Purée, Water, Onion, Red Wire Carrot, Garlic Purée, Cornflour, Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Salt, Yeast Extract, Oregano, Marjoram, Beef Extract, Black Pepper, Basil, Sugar, Bay

As written on the pack

Cooked Pasta [Water, Durum Wheat Semolina], Tomato, Beef (23%), Tomato Purée, Water, Onion, Red Wire Carrot, Garlic Purée, Cornflour, Wheat Flour [Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin], Salt, Yeast Extract, Oregano, Marjoram, Beef Extract, Black Pepper, Basil, Sugar, Bay.

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.

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 13 bolognese-style pasta

From least to most processed, this one ranks 3rd. 77% of the bolognese-style pasta 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 13 bolognese-style pasta, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5059512734236, last edited 4 August 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.