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Is Higgidy Roasted Sweet Potato, Spinach & Feta Pie ultra-processed?

Frozen ready-made meals Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Higgidy Roasted Sweet Potato, Spinach & Feta 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:

  • 30 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Sweet Potato 23%, Water, Wheat Flour (contains Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Onions, Feta Cheese, Spinach 6%, Butter, Mature Cheddar Cheese, Crème Fraîche, Cannellini Beans, Rapeseed Oil, Butternut Squash, Medium Fat Soft Cheese, Skimmed Milk, Pumpkin Seeds, Cornflour, Whipping Cream, Garlic Purée, Salt, Aleppo Chilli 1%, Black Pepper, Cumin Seeds, Cayenne Pepper, Nutmeg, Cumin, Yeast

As written on the pack

Sweet Potato (23%), Water, Wheat Flour (contains Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Onions, Feta Cheese (Milk) (8%), Spinach (6%), Butter (Milk), Mature Cheddar Cheese (Milk), Crème Fraîche (Milk), Cannellini Beans, Rapeseed Oil, Butternut Squash Purée, Medium Fat Soft Cheese (Milk), Dried Skimmed Milk, Pumpkin Seeds, Cornflour, Whipping Cream (Milk), Garlic Purée, Salt, Aleppo Chilli (<1%), Black Pepper, Cumin Seeds, Cayenne Pepper, Nutmeg, Ground Cumin, Yeast

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.

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 84 frozen ready-made meals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 10th. 69% of the frozen ready-made 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 84 frozen ready-made meals, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060136256110, last edited 2 April 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.