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Is Ginsters Cornish Pasty Original ultra-processed?

227 g Puff pastry sheets Sold in the United Kingdom and Jersey

Pack of Ginsters Cornish Pasty Original

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:

  • 26 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

Potato, Wheat Flour (Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), British Beef 15%, Vegetable Oil (Palm Vegetable Oil, Rapeseed Vegetable Oil, Sunflower Vegetable Oil), Water, Onion, Swede, Beef Fat, Salt, Cornflour, Egg, Milk, Pepper, Dried Onion, Sugar, Mustard, Leeks, Coriander, Turmeric

As written on the pack

Potato, Wheat Flour (Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), British Beef (15%), Vegetable Oil (Palm, Rapeseed, Sunflower), Water, Onion, Swede, Beef Fat, Salt, Cornflour, Egg, Milk, Pepper, Dried Onion, Sugar, Mustard, Dried Leeks, Coriander, Turmeric

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

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 3rd. 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 5010718215011, last edited 30 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.