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Is Ginsters Cheese & Onion Pasty ultra-processed?

180 g Puff pastry sheets Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Ginsters Cheese & Onion Pasty

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

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

Whole foods combined with:

  • 28 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed cereals and their products

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 (Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Potato, Cheddar 17%, Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Onion 19%, Onion 8% (Onion, Sugar, Rapeseed Oil), Spring Onion, Egg, Cornflour, Bramley Apple Purée, Salt, Milk, Mustard Seeds, Black Pepper, White Wine Vinegar, Honey, Mustard Flour, Garlic Powder, Mustard, Spices

As written on the pack

Wheat Flour (Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Potato, Cheddar 17% (Milk), Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Onion 19%, Caramelised Onion 8% (Onion, Sugar, Rapeseed Oil), Spring Onion, Egg, Cornflour, Bramley Apple Purée, Salt, Milk, Mustard Seeds, Black Pepper, White Wine Vinegar, Honey, Mustard Flour, Garlic Powder, Mustard Bran, Spices

What makes it processed

Processed ingredients

Processed foods in their own right, such as cheese or milk powder.

  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

Culinary ingredients

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

  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 19 puff pastry sheets

From least to most processed, this one ranks 4th. 63% of the puff pastry sheets 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 19 puff pastry sheets, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5010718290018, last edited 20 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.