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Meat pies, from least to most processed

We track 38 meat pies, 71% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is pork farms.

What makes meat pies ultra-processed

The signs of ultra-processing found most often, and the share of meat pies that contain each:

Processed food (11)

  1. 1 pork farms 3
  2. 2 Melton Mowbray Pork Pie Brockleby's 3
  3. 3 Sausage rolls Crestwood · 360 g 3
  4. 4 Chicken & gravy pie Waitrose 3
  5. 5 Chicken & Mushroom Slice Ginsters · 170 g 3
  6. 6 Steak And Guinness Pie Higgidy 3
  7. 7 Streak & Ale Pie Tesco Finest · 250g 3
  8. 8 Steak & Gravy Puff Pastry Pie Sainsbury's · 550 g 3
  9. 9 Chicken & Ham Hock Pie Higgidy · 250g 3
  10. 10 Steak Pie M&S Food · 500g 3
  11. 11 Chicken, Leek & Smoked Bacon Pie Mark & Spencer · 500 g 3

Ultra-processed food (27)

  1. 12 Moo British Beef syeak & craft ale pie Pieminister · 270 g 4
  2. 13 Moo & Blue Pieminster · 270 g 4
  3. 14 6 Melton Mowbray Pork Pies Tesco 4
  4. 15 Dinky Melton Mowbray Pork Pies Marks & Spencer · 250 g 4
  5. 16 Melton Mowbray Pork Pies Tesco · 100 g 4
  6. 17 Melton Mowbray Pork Pie Co-op · 145g 4
  7. 18 Pork pie Dickinson & Morris · 440g 4
  8. 19 Melton Mowbray Pork Pie Sainsbury's · 145g 4
  9. 20 Mini Melton Mowbray Pork Pies Sainsbury's 4
  10. 21 Melton Mowbray Pork Pies Marks & Spencers · 563 g 4
  11. 22 British Melton Mowbray Pork Pie M&S Food · 145g 4
  12. 23 Steak & Ale Pie Charlie Bingham's · 300g 4
  13. 24 Cottage Pie Sainsbury's Taste The Difference 4
  14. 25 Mexikansk Tacopaj Felix · 220 g 4
  15. 26 Pork Pies Pork Farms · 200g 4
  16. 27 Bacon & Broccolipaj Felix · 220 g 4
  17. 28 Fray Bentos Just Chicken Fray Bentos · 425g e 4
  18. 29 Matpaj - Köttfärs & Ost NZ Pies · 250 g 4
  19. 30 Matpaj - Chilli Steak NZ Pies · 250 g 4
  20. 31 Steak & kidney pie Pukka 4
  21. 32 Steak & Kidney Pie Fray Bentos · 425 g 4
  22. 33 Chicken, Ham & Leek Pie Cook · 600g 4
  23. 34 Pie Crestwood 4
  24. 35 Fray Bentos Steak & Gravy Baxters · 425g 4
  25. 36 Sainsburys Short Crust Mince Pies Sainsbury's 4
  26. 37 Steak & Stilton Pies Lidl · 400g 4
  27. 38 Greggs Steak Bake 2pk Greggs · 280 g 4

Within each group, products with fewer signs of ultra-processing, additives and ingredients come first. This ordering is ours, for comparison; it is not part of NOVA.