Is Ginsters Maroccan vegetable pasty ultra-processed?

180 g Puff pastry meals Sold in the United Kingdom

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Dextrose
Glucose
Glucose syrup

39 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score D

Less processed puff pastry meals

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, Vegetable Oil (processing marker) (Palm Vegetable Oil, Rapeseed Vegetable Oil, Sunflower Vegetable Oil), Butternut Squash 10%, Onion, Tomato, Piquanté Peppers 5%, Chickpeas 4.5%, Spring Onions, Apricots 2.5%, Cornflour, Dates, Salt (processing marker), Apple, Spices, Garlic Puree, Herbs, Rice Flour, Yeast Extract, Glucose Syrup (ultra-processing marker), Sugar (processing marker), Lemon Juice, Cider, White Wine Vinegar, Pea Protein, Black Pepper, Tomato Purée, Apple Purée, Mustard Seeds, Apple, Dextrose (ultra-processing marker), Spirit Vinegar

As written on the pack

Wheat Flour (Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Potato, Vegetable Oil (Palm, Rapeseed, Sunflower), Butternut Squash (10%), Onion, Tomato, Piquanté Peppers (5%), Chickpeas (4.5%), Spring Onions, Apricots (2.5%), Cornflour, Dates, Salt, Apple, Spices, Garlic Puree, Herbs, Rice Flour, Yeast Extract, Glucose Syrup, Sugar, Lemon Juice Powder, Cider, White Wine Vinegar, Pea Protein, Black Pepper, Tomato Purée, Apple Purée, Mustard Seeds, Apple Flakes, Dextrose, Spirit Vinegar

What makes it ultra-processed

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.
Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.

4 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.
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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 21 puff pastry meals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 16th. 33% of the puff pastry meals 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 21 puff pastry meals, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5010718204916, 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.