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Is Tesco Tuna pasta bake ultra-processed?

Meals with fish Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Tesco Tuna pasta bake

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:

  • 29 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Tomato, Cooked Pasta (Water, Durum Wheat Semolina), Tuna, Water, Whole Milk, Mature Cheddar Cheese, Cornflour, Wheat Flour, Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin, Onion, Tomato Purée, Butter, Garlic Purée, Salt, Basil, Sugar, Black Pepper, White Pepper, Nutmeg, including cereals containing gluten, Caution This product can contain minor bones, Responsibly sourcing our seafood is important to us, which is why Tesco fish experts work with responsibly managed

As written on the pack

Tomato, Cooked Pasta [Water, Durum Wheat Semolina], Tuna (Fish) (15%), Water, Whole Milk, Mature Cheddar Cheese (Milk) (3%), Cornflour, Wheat Flour [Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Onion, Tomato Purée, Butter (Milk), Garlic Purée, Salt, Basil, Sugar, Black Pepper, White Pepper, Nutmeg. Allergy Advice For allergens, including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients in bold. Caution This product can contain minor bones. Responsibly sourcing our seafood is important to us, which is why Tesco fish experts work with responsibly managed

What makes it processed

Processed ingredients

Processed foods in their own right, such as cheese or milk powder.

  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

Culinary ingredients

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

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • 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 64 meals with fish

From least to most processed, this one ranks 7th. 78% of the meals with fish 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 64 meals with fish, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5059697742620, last edited 19 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 A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.