Is Higgidy slow braised steak & craft ale pie ultra-processed?

1 pie. 200g Sold in the United Kingdom

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Butter
Salt

27 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score D

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Beef 29%, Wheat Flour (contains Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Ale (Barley), Water, Butter (processing marker), Onions, Carrots 5%, Chopped Tomatoes (Tomatoes, Tomato Juice), Cannellini Beans, Butternut Squash, Beef Stock, Cornflour, Free-Range Egg Yolk, Salt (processing marker), Tomato Purée, Mixed Herbs, Spices, Barley Malt Extract, Brown Linseeds, Cayenne Pepper

As written on the pack

Beef (29%), Wheat Flour (contains Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Ale (Barley) (11%), Water, Butter (Milk), Onions, Carrots (5%), Chopped Tomatoes (Tomatoes, Tomato Juice), Cannellini Beans, Butternut Squash Purée, Beef Stock, Cornflour, Free-Range Egg Yolk, Salt, Tomato Purée, Mixed Herbs & Spices, Barley Malt Extract, Brown Linseeds, Cayenne Pepper

What makes it processed

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.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060136256073, last edited 15 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.