Is Trader Joe's Butternut Squash Ravioli ultra-processed?

Cereals and their products Sold in the United States

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Lactose
Milk proteins

20 ingredients
2 additives
Nutri-Score D

Less processed cereals and their products

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Old Fashioned 100% Whole Grain Rolled Oats Quaker Oats 1 ingredient · no additives NOVA group 1

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

Filling (butternut squash), bread crumbs (wheat flour, natural yeast, salt (processing marker)), butter (processing marker), amaretti biscuits (sugar (processing marker), sweet apricot kernels, egg white, lactose (ultra-processing marker), whey power (milk protein (ultra-processing marker)), baking soda), salt (processing marker), pasta (soft wheat flour), liquid whole egg, durum wheat semolina

Additives: E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Filling: butternut squash, bread crumbs (wheat flour, natural yeast, salt), butter, amaretti biscuits (sugar, sweet apricot kernels, dried egg white, lactose, whey power [milk protein], baking soda), salt. pasta: soft wheat flour, liquid whole egg, durum wheat semolina.

What makes it ultra-processed

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.
Milk proteins Milk proteins are proteins separated from milk, such as caseinates and whey protein concentrates, added to adjust texture or raise protein content.

4 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.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 5,066 cereals and their products

From least to most processed, this one ranks 3541st. 57% of the cereals and their products 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 5,066 cereals and their products, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00943482, last edited 6 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 D (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.