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Is Kirstys Cottage pie ultra-processed?

400g Microwave meals Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Kirstys Cottage 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:

  • 39 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Minced Beef 33.333333333333336%, Tomato Sauce 33.333333333333336% (Beef, Water, Onion, Peas, Carrot, Chopped Tomatoes (Tomatoes, Tomato Juice, Citric Acid), Beef Stock (Water, Beef Stock (Beef Bone, Water), Yeast Extract, Salt, Lemon Juice Concentrate, Beef Fat), Cornflour, Worcester Sauce (Water, Spirit Vinegar, Sugar, Onion, Tamarind Paste, Ginger, Garlic, Cloves), Tomato Purée, Parsley, Black Pepper), Sweet Potato Mash 33.333333333333336% (Sweet Potato, Potato, Carrot, Salt, White Pepper)

Additives: E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Minced Beef and Tomato Sauce (50%) [Beef 34%, Water, Onion, Peas 10%, Carrot 10%, Chopped Tomatoes (Tomatoes, Tomato Juice, Citric Acid ), Beef Stock (Water, Beef Stock 30% (Beef Bone, Water), Yeast Extract, Salt, Lemon Juice Concentrate, Beef Fat 1%), Cornflour, Worcester Sauce (Water, Spirit Vinegar, Sugar, Onion, Tamarind Paste, Ginger, Garlic, Cloves), Tomato Purée, Parsley, Ground Black Pepper], Sweet Potato Mash (50%) [Sweet Potato 45%, Potato 39%, Carrot 15%, Salt, White Pepper]

What makes it processed

Processed ingredients

Processed foods in their own right, such as cheese or milk powder.

  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.

Culinary ingredients

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • 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 351 microwave meals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 84th. 72% of the microwave 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 351 microwave meals, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5032824017303, 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.