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Is Ugo spicy salami tortelli ultra-processed?

Tortellini Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Ugo spicy salami tortelli

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:

  • 46 ingredients
  • 3 additives

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Pasta 60% (Durum wheat semolina, free range egg 12%, water), Filling 40% (Tomato passata 11.6%, fortified wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), salami 7.6% (pork meat, pork fat, salt, sweet paprika, hot paprika, black pepper, garlic, caraway seeds, saccharose, antioxidants (citric acid), ascorbic acid, preservative (sodium nitrite)), extra mature Cheddar cheese, red onion, mozzarella cheese, medium fat hard cheese, hot green peppers (peppers, water, distilled vinegar, salt, preservative (citric acid), turmeric), jalapenos (green jalapenos, water, vinegar, salt, calcium chloride), salt)

Additives: E250 Sodium nitrite , E300 Ascorbic acid , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Pasta (60%) (Durum wheat semolina, pasteurised free range egg (12%), water) Filling (40%) (Tomato passata (29%), fortified wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), salami (19%) (pork meat, pork fat, salt, sweet paprika, hot paprika, black pepper, garlic, caraway seeds, saccharose, antioxidants: citric acid, ascorbic acid, preservative: sodium nitrite), extra mature Cheddar cheese (milk), red onion, mozzarella cheese (milk), medium fat hard cheese (milk), hot green peppers (peppers, water, distilled vinegar, salt, preservative: citric acid, turmeric), jalapenos (green jalapenos, water, vinegar, salt, calcium chloride), salt)

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.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.

Preservation and traditional processing

Keep food safe or ferment it, like preservatives and cultures. A sign of processing, not ultra-processing.

  • E250 Sodium nitrite Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.

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 21 tortellini

From least to most processed, this one ranks 3rd. 86% of the tortellini 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 21 tortellini, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5024271111932, last edited 19 January 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.