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Is Worldwide Foods Tomato and basil fusilli pasta ultra-processed?

200g Pasta dishes Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Worldwide Foods Tomato and basil fusilli pasta

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:

  • 24 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Water, tomato passata 21%, fusilli pasta 17% (Durum Wheat Semolina, Egg ite), tomato 12%, basil sauce 12% (Tomato Concentrate, Sunflower Oil, Basil, Water, Sugar, Salt, Cassava Starch, Potato Starch), tomato 7%, Onion, Garlic, Rice Starch, Olive Oil, Sugar, Salt, Acid (Citric Acid)

Additives: E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Water, TOMATO PASSATA (21%), FUSILLI PASTA (17%) (Durum Wheat Semolina, Egg ite), TOMATO AND BASIL SAUCE (12%) (Tomato Concentrate, Sunflower Oil, Basil, Water, Sugar, Salt, Cassava Starch, Potato Starch), TOMATO (7%), Onion Granules, Garlic, Rice Starch, Olive Oil, Sugar, Salt, Acid: Citric Acid. ALLERGY ADVICE:

What makes it processed

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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 544 pasta dishes

From least to most processed, this one ranks 119th. 72% of the pasta dishes 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 544 pasta dishes, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600453477, last edited 28 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.