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Is Waitrose Free range egg pasta ricotta cheese and spinach filling ultra-processed?

Tortellini Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Waitrose Free range egg pasta ricotta cheese and spinach filling

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:

  • 19 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Durum wheat semolina, ricotta cheese, spinach 15%, water, wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), free range egg 3%, potato, sea salt, yeast, cheese powder, nutmeg, salt, garlic purée, black pepper

As written on the pack

Durum wheat semolina, ricotta cheese (milk) (17%), spinach (15%), water, wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), pasteurised free range egg (3%), dried potato, sea salt, yeast, cheese powder (milk), nutmeg, salt, garlic purée, black pepper

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.

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 1st. 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 5000169634868, last edited 25 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.