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Is Chef Select Shortcrust Pastry ultra-processed?

375 g Pie dough Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Chef Select Shortcrust Pastry

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:

  • 12 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed pie dough

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

Wheat Flour, Palm Fat, Water, Rapeseed Oil, Dextrose, Ethanol, Salt, Acidity Regulator (Citric Acid), Emulsifiers (mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids), Sunflower Lecithins

Additives: E1510 Ethanol , E322 Lecithins , E330 Citric acid , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids

As written on the pack

Wheat Flour, Palm Fat, Water, Rapeseed Oil, Dextrose, Ethanol, Salt, Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid; Emulsifiers: Mono - and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids, Sunflower Lecithins

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.

  • E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.
  • E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids are made from fats and glycerol.
  • Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.

Substances rarely used in home kitchens

Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
1 ingredient that would only make it processed

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

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 41 pie dough

From least to most processed, this one ranks 31st. 66% of the pie dough 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 41 pie dough, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20486488, last edited 27 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.