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Is Higgidy Steak And Guinness Pie ultra-processed?

Meat pies Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Higgidy Steak And Guinness 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:

  • 29 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Beef 31%, Wheat Flour (with Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Vitamin B3, Vitamin B1), Guinness 13% (Barley), Onions, Butter, Chopped Tomatoes, Cannellini Beans, Butternut Squash, Yeast Extract, Cornflour, Free-Range Egg Yolk, Salt, Garlic Purée, Tomato Purée, Barley Malt Vinegar, Rapeseed Oil, Barley Malt Extract, Black Treacle, Rosemary, Black Pepper, Spices, Tamarind, Yeast, White Pepper

As written on the pack

Beef (31%), Wheat Flour (with Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Vitamin B3, Vitamin B1), Guinness (13%) (Barley), Onions, Butter (Milk) (9%), Chopped Tomatoes, Cannellini Beans, Butternut Squash Purée, Yeast Extract, Cornflour, Free-Range Egg Yolk, Salt, Garlic Purée, Tomato Purée, Barley Malt Vinegar, Rapeseed Oil, Barley Malt Extract, Black Treacle, Rosemary, Black Pepper, Spices, Tamarind Concentrate, Yeast, White 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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

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 38 meat pies

From least to most processed, this one ranks 6th. 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 5060136256622, last edited 30 May 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.