Meatball Marinara
Processing
4
Ultra-processed
Group 4 of 4 on the NOVA scale
Additives listed
1
0 we grade moderate or higher
Counted from the label, not by quantity
Salt per 100g
0.66g
Medium
UK FSA front of pack threshold
Three separate readings, kept apart on purpose. This is not a score, and none of it says this product is harmful.
Additives (1)
This label lists 1 sweetener.
E955
Sucralose
Artificial sweetener
What it is. An intense sweetener made from sugar, around 600 times sweeter, so it is used in very small amounts.
Why it is used. Sweetens diet drinks, tabletop sweeteners, dairy and baked goods.
What the evidence says. Regulators have treated it as safe for decades and the acceptable daily intake has not changed. Newer laboratory work on a breakdown product, and the general question of sweeteners and the gut microbiome, keep it under discussion, but that work is early and has not moved any official position.
Permitted with an acceptable daily intake in all three regions.
Assessed against EFSA, JECFA. Full entry for E955
Ingredients
Cooked Penne Pasta (28%) (Water, Durum _Wheat_ Semolina), Cooked Pork & Beef Meatball (20%) (Pork, Beef, Water, Onion, Wheat Flour (_Wheat_ Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Niacin, Iron, Folic Acid, Thiamin)), _Wheat_ Gluten, Herbs, Pork Fat, Salt, Garlic, Potato Starch, Yeast Extract, Yeast, Spices, Eatlean™ Cheese (_Milk_) (8%), Passata, Mushroom, Water, Spinach, Peppers, Chopped Tomatoes (Tomatoes, Tomato Juice), Onion, Tomato Paste, Garlic, Dried Tomato, Rapeseed Oil, Modified Maize Starch, Oligofructose, Salt, Sun Dried Tomato, Herbs, Yeast Extract, Red Chillies, Chicken Stock (Chicken Stock, Concentrated Chicken Extract, Yeast Extract (contains _Barley_), Water, Salt), Brown Sugar, Sunflower Oil, White Wine Vinegar, Sweetener: Sucralose.
As printed on the pack, in the producer's own order: ingredients are listed by weight, so what comes first is most of what is in it. E numbers link to their assessment where we have one.