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Is Charlie Binghams Fish Pie ultra-processed?

655g Refrigerated meals Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Charlie Binghams Fish Pie

Yes, it's ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 45 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Potatoes, milk, hake 11%, salmon 11%, cream, butter, haddock 3% (haddock, salt), wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), Cheddar cheese, spinach, breadcrumbs (wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), salt, yeast, caramelised sugar, paprika extract, turmeric extract), double cream, salt, parsley, free-range egg yolk, fish stock (water, salt, fish, rapeseed oil, cod, anchovies, lemon juice concentrate, dried onion, potato), lemon juice, white pepper

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E160c Paprika extract

As written on the pack

Potatoes, milk, hake (11%) (fish), salmon (11%) (fish), cream (milk), butter (milk), smoked haddock (3%) (smoked haddock (fish), salt), wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), Cheddar cheese (milk), spinach, breadcrumbs (wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), salt, yeast, caramelised sugar, colours: paprika extract, turmeric extract), double cream (milk), salt, parsley, free-range egg yolk, fish stock (water, salt, fish powder, rapeseed oil, dried cod (fish), anchovies (fish), lemon juice concentrate, dried onion, dried potato), lemon juice, white pepper.

What makes it ultra-processed

Cosmetic additives

Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • E100 Curcumin Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
5 ingredients that would only make it processed

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 44 refrigerated meals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 27th. 61% of the refrigerated meals 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 44 refrigerated meals, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5033665208639, last edited 14 July 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.