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Is M&S Food Collection Slow Cooked Heritage Gold Pork Casserole ultra-processed?

690g Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of M&S Food Collection Slow Cooked Heritage Gold Pork Casserole

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:

  • 60 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

British Pork 56%, Cider 20%, Mustard Sauce 20%, Chestnut Mushrooms 9%, Silverskin Onions 6%, Smoked Bacon 5% (British Pork Belly (made with 105g of Raw Pork per 100g of Smoked Bacon), Curing Salt (Salt Preservative (Sodium Nitrite), Sodium Nitrate), Sugar, Demerara Sugar, Antioxidant (e301)), Brown Sugar, Dried Garlic, Yeast Extract, Cornflour, Thyme, Salt, Dried Onions, Rice Flour, Black Pepper, Dried Yeast Acid, Citric Acid, Parsley, Paprika, Lemon Oil, Thyme, cider, MUSTARD SAUCE contains Cider, Water, Crème Fraîche, Double Cream, Onions, Chicken Stock (Water, Chicken Bones, Yeast Extract, Salt, Tomato Purée, Sugar), Cornflour, Dijon Mustard (Water, Vinegar, Mustard, Sea Salt, Mustard Seed Husk, Allspice, Turmeric), Mustard (Water, Vinegar, Brown Mustard Seeds, Sea Salt, Cinnamon, Allspice)

Additives: E250 Sodium nitrite , E251 Sodium nitrate , E301 Sodium ascorbate , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

British Pork (56%), Cider and Mustard Sauce (20%), Chestnut Mushrooms (9%), Silverskin Onions (6%), Smoked Bacon (5%) (British Pork Belly (made with 105g of Raw Pork per 100g of Smoked Bacon), Curing Salt (Salt Preservative: Sodium Nitrite, Sodium Nitrate), Sugar, Demerara Sugar, Antioxidant: E301), Brown Sugar, Dried Garlic, Yeast Extract, Cornflour, Thyme, Salt, Dried Onions, Rice Flour, Ground Black Pepper, Dried Yeast Acid, Citric Acid, Parsley, Ground Paprika, Lemon Oil, Thyme Extract. CIDER AND MUSTARD SAUCE contains Cider, Water, Crème Fraîche (Milk), Double Cream (Milk), Onions, Chicken Stock (Water, Chicken Bones, Yeast Extract, Salt, Tomato Purée, Sugar), Cornflour, Dijon Mustard (Water, Vinegar, Dried Mustard, Sea Salt, Mustard Seed Husk, Allspice, Turmeric), Wholegrain Mustard (Water, Vinegar, Brown Mustard Seeds, Sea Salt, Cinnamon, Allspice).

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.

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.
  • E251 Sodium nitrate 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.

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About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 29432738, 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.