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Is Charlie Bingham's Steak & Ale Pie ultra-processed?

300g Meat pies Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Charlie Bingham's Steak & Ale 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:

  • 54 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

British beef 31%, wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), onions, ale 11% (barley), water, carrots, red wine, rapeseed oil, sustainable palm oil, mushrooms, bacon (pork, salt, preservative (sodium nitrite), antioxidant (ascorbic acid)), cornflour, celery, beef stock (water, yeast extract, beef bones, salt, molasses, tomato purée, rapeseed oil, dried onions, black pepper), port, tomato purée, beef gelatine, salt, Worcester sauce (water, sugar, spirit vinegar, molasses, onion, salt, tamarind paste, cloves, garlic purée, ginger), garlic purée, cherry tomatoes, black pepper, porcini mushroom

Additives: E250 Sodium nitrite , E300 Ascorbic acid , E428 Gelatine

As written on the pack

British beef (31%), wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), onions, ale (11%) (barley), water, carrots, red wine, rapeseed oil, sustainable palm oil, mushrooms, bacon (pork, salt, preservative: sodium nitrite*, antioxidant: ascorbic acid), cornflour, celery, beef stock (water, yeast extract, beef bones, salt, molasses, tomato purée, rapeseed oil, dried onions, ground black pepper), port, tomato purée, beef gelatine, salt, vegetarian Worcester sauce (water, sugar, spirit vinegar, molasses, onion purée, salt, tamarind paste, cloves, garlic purée, ginger purée), garlic purée, semi-dried cherry tomatoes, black pepper, porcini mushroom powder.

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.

  • E428 Gelatine Gelatine is a gelling agent made from collagen in animal skin and bones.
6 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.

  • E250 Sodium nitrite Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 38 meat pies

From least to most processed, this one ranks 23rd. 71% of the meat pies 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 38 meat pies, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5033665216085, last edited 22 March 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.