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Is Higgidy Chicken & Ham Hock Pie ultra-processed?

250g Meat pies Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Higgidy Chicken & Ham Hock Pie

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:

  • 20 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score D

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Wheat Flour, Free Range Chicken, Butter, Water, Onion, Leek, Crème Fraîche, Ham Hock, Sodium Nitrite, Medium Fat Hard Cheese, White Wine, Mustard, British Chicken Stock, Free Range Egg Yolk, Wheat Flour, Salt, Cornflour, Thyme, Rosemary, Cayenne Pepper

Additives: E250 Sodium nitrite

As written on the pack

Wheat Flour, Free Range Chicken, Butter, Water, Onion, Leek, Crème Fraîche, Ham Hock, Sodium Nitrite, Medium Fat Hard Cheese, White Wine, Wholegrain Mustard, British Chicken Stock, Free Range Egg Yolk, Wheat Flour, Salt, Cornflour, Thyme, Rosemary, Cayenne Pepper

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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.

Preservation and traditional processing

Keep food safe or ferment it, like preservatives and cultures. A sign of processing, not ultra-processing.

  • E250 Sodium nitrite Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 38 meat pies

From least to most processed, this one ranks 9th. 71% of the meat pies 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 38 meat pies, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060136250392, 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.