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Is Sainsbury's Bramley Apple Pie ultra-processed?

Sweet pies Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsbury's Bramley Apple Pie

Yes, it's ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 20 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed sweet pies

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

5500 Bramley Apples 45%, Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Sugar, Butter 7% (Cows' Milk), Free Range Egg, Rapeseed Oil, Palm Oil, Demerara Sugar, Cornflour, Tapioca Dextrin, Tapioca Starch, Cows' Milk, Lemon Juice, Salt

Additives: E1400 Dextrin

As written on the pack

5500 Bramley Apples (45%), Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Sugar, Butter (7%) (Cows' Milk), Pasteurised Free Range Egg, Rapeseed Oil, Palm Oil, Demerara Sugar, Cornflour, Tapioca Dextrin, Tapioca Starch, Cows' Milk, Lemon Juice, Salt. ! Allergy advice:

What makes it ultra-processed

Cosmetic additives

Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • E1400 Dextrin Dextrin is starch partly broken down by heat or acid, used as a thickener, binder and coating.
4 ingredients that would only make it processed

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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 38 sweet pies

From least to most processed, this one ranks 3rd. 95% of the sweet 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 sweet pies, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 01780390, last edited 5 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.