Is Coop All Butter Pastry Luxury Mince Pies ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 42 ingredients
- 3 additives
- Nutri-Score E
Less processed sweet pies
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium carbonate, Folic acid, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Butter (processing marker), Sugar (processing marker), Glucose-Fructose Syrup (ultra-processing marker), Sultanas 9%, Apple Purée 7% (Apple pulp, Preservative (processing marker) (Acetic Acid)), Raisins 6%, Currants 4%, Brandy 2%, Icing Sugar (processing marker), Palm Oil, Port, Modified Maize Starch (ultra-processing marker), Dextrose (ultra-processing marker), Rice Flour, Orange Peel, Coriander, Preservative (processing marker) (Acetic Acid), Cinnamon, Lemon Peel, Acidity Regulator (Citric acid), Colour (ultra-processing marker) (Plain caramel (ultra-processing marker)), Maize Starch (processing marker), Ginger, Caraway, Nutmeg, Orange Oil, Sunflower Oil (processing marker), Olive Oil (processing marker), Clove
Additives: E150a Plain caramel , E260 Acetic acid , E330 Citric acid
As written on the pack
Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium carbonate, Folic acid, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Butter (Milk) (13%), Sugar, Glucose-Fructose Syrup, Sultanas (9%), Apple Purée (7%) (Apple pulp, Preservative (Acetic Acid)), Raisins (6%), Currants (4%), Brandy (2%), Icing Sugar, Palm Oil, Port, Modified Maize Starch, Dextrose, Rice Flour, Orange Peel, Coriander, Preservative (Acetic Acid), Cinnamon, Lemon Peel, Acidity Regulator (Citric acid), Colour (Plain caramel), Maize Starch, Ginger, Caraway, Nutmeg, Orange Oil, Sunflower Oil, Olive Oil, Clove.
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.
- E150a Plain caramel Plain caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars.
- Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
- Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.
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.
- Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
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.
- Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
- Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
- Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
Among 8 fruit tarts
From least to most processed, this one ranks 2nd. 100% of the fruit tarts here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000129345414, 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 E (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.