Is Deluxe Curried chickpea, red pepper and spinach pie ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 52 ingredients
- 3 additives
- Nutri-Score D
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Medium Spiced Tomato Sauce 25% (Coconut Milk (Coconut, Water), Dextrose (ultra-processing marker), Water, Sugar (processing marker), Spirit Vinegar, Tomato Paste, Rapeseed Oil, Cornflour, Chilli Purée, Onion, Spices, Ginger, Garlic Purée, Colour (ultra-processing marker) (Paprika Extract (ultra-processing marker))), Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate (ultra-processing marker), Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Red Pepper 11%, Chickpeas 9%, Onion 9%, Spinach 6%, Vegetable Oil (processing marker) (Palm Vegetable Oil, Rapeseed Vegetable Oil), Sweet Potato, Curried Breadcrumb Topping 4%, Breadcrumbs (Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate (ultra-processing marker), Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Water, Salt (processing marker), Yeast), Spices, Salt (processing marker), Herbs, Dried Onion, Dried Garlic, Natural Lemon Flavouring (ultra-processing marker), Butter (processing marker), Modified Maize Starch (ultra-processing marker), Dextrose (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E170 Calcium carbonates , E170i Calcium carbonate
As written on the pack
25% Medium Spiced Tomato Sauce (Coconut Milk [Coconut Extract, Water], Dextrose, Water, Sugar, Spirit Vinegar, Tomato Paste, Rapeseed Oil, Cornflour, Chilli Purée, Onion, Ground Spices, Ginger Purée, Garlic Purée, Colour: Paprika Extract), Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), 11% Red Pepper, 9% Chickpeas, 9% Onion, 6% Spinach, Vegetable Oil (Palm, Rapeseed), Sweet Potato, 4% Curried Breadcrumb Topping (Breadcrumbs (Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Water, Salt, Yeast), Spices, Salt, Dried Herbs, Dried Onion, Dried Garlic, Natural Lemon Flavouring), Butter (Milk), Modified Maize Starch, Dextrose. Allergy Advice
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.
- E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
- E170 Calcium carbonates Calcium carbonate is chalk.
- Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4056489651062, last edited 1 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 D (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.