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Is Waitrose Beef lasagne ultra-processed?

Bolognese lasagne Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Waitrose Beef lasagne

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:

  • 36 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Beef 25%, cooked free range egg pasta (water, durum wheat NU semolina, free range egg, free range egg albumen), passata, whole milk, red wine, onion, tomato purée, water, carrot, wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), tomatoes, cornflour, celery, mature Cheddar cheese, rapeseed oil, single cream, medium mature Cheddar cheese, garlic purée, salt, beef extract, basil, sugar, oregano, black pepper, white pepper, nutmeg, yeast extract

As written on the pack

Beef (25%), cooked free range egg pasta (water, durum wheat NU semolina, pasteurised free range egg, pasteurised free range egg albumen), passata, whole milk, red wine, onion, tomato purée, water, carrot, wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), tomatoes, cornflour, celery, mature Cheddar cheese (milk), rapeseed oil, single cream (milk), medium mature Cheddar cheese (milk), garlic purée, salt, beef extract, basil, sugar, oregano, black pepper, ground white pepper, ground nutmeg, yeast extract

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.

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 22 bolognese lasagne

From least to most processed, this one ranks 5th. 64% of the bolognese lasagne 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 22 bolognese lasagne, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000169059098, last edited 27 March 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.