Is Waitrose & Partners Spinach & Ricotta Cannelloni ultra-processed?
It's processed, but not ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Whole foods combined with:
- 31 ingredients
- No additives
- Nutri-Score C
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Whole milk, ricotta cheese (processing marker), tomatoes, cooked free range egg pasta (durum wheat semolina, water, free range egg, free range egg albumen), spinach 13%, water, mature Cheddar cheese (processing marker), double cream, regato cheese, cornflour, rapeseed oil, garlic purée, wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), demerara sugar (processing marker), salt (processing marker), tomato paste, basil, nutmeg, sunflower oil (processing marker), white pepper, black pepper, bay leaf
As written on the pack
Whole milk, ricotta cheese (milk) (17%), tomatoes, cooked free range egg pasta (durum wheat semolina, water, pasteurised free range egg, pasteurised free range egg albumen), spinach (13%), water, mature Cheddar cheese (milk), double cream (milk), regato cheese (milk), cornflour, rapeseed oil, garlic purée, wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), demerara sugar, salt, tomato paste, basil, nutmeg, sunflower oil, white pepper, black pepper, bay leaf.
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.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
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.
Among 149 stuffed pastas
From least to most processed, this one ranks 23rd. 76% of the stuffed pastas here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000169057902, last edited 10 May 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 C (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.