Let’s review the list of ingredients, to see what you are eating?


Here’s the true taste of Italy…

Pasta Nostra – Bolognese  

Pasta 68.6% (durum wheat semolina, water), tomato 10,6%, onion, potato starch, sugar, salt, yeast extract, natural flavourings (contain gluten, soybeans), garlic, carrot, red bell pepper, cooked beef 0,6%, parsley, oregano.


Made in a factory somewhere in the EU is Batchelors.

Here is their Pasta n’ Sauce – Chicken & Mushroom recipe.

Loving the flavourings, emulsifiers, stabilisers…not!

Pasta Spirals (51%) (Durum Wheat Semolina), Dried Glucose Syrup, Potato Starch, Skimmed Milk Powder, Palm Oil, Dried Yeast Extract (contains Barley, Wheat), Salt, Mushroom Powder (1%), Flavourings (contain Barley, Wheat), Onion Powder, Garlic Powder, Emulsifier (Mono- and Diacetyl Tartaric Acid Esters of Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids), Dried Parsley, Stabiliser (Dipotassium Phosphate), Sugar, Ground Turmeric, Chicken Fat


Made in a factory in South Wales – we like Wales, but it is nowhere near Italy, is Pot Noodle.

This is their Chicken and Mushroom recipe.

And loving the firming agents, flavouring enhancers, palm fat and palm oil…not!

Noodle Mix (96%): Dried Noodles (69%)
[wheat flour, palm oil, salt, firming agents (potassium carbonate, sodium carbonates)] maltodextrin, wheat flour, sweetcorn, potassium chloride, flavour enhancers (monosodium glutamate, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate), flavourings (contain milk), sugar, skimmed milk powder, palm fat, salt, onion powder, yeast powder, mushrooms (0.4%), herbs (chives, sage), potato starch, mushroom juice concentrate, citric acid

Sauce (4%): Soy sauce [water, soy sauce, salt, molasses, sugar, acetic acid]

Enough said!