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Is Sainsbury's Fish Pie ultra-processed?

400g Meals with fish Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsbury's Fish 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:

  • 46 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Less processed meals with fish

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

Potato, Cows' Milk, Certified Dyed Smoked Haddock (Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), Colour (Curcumin), Salt), Certified Salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, Oncorhynchus keta), Certified Pollock (Theragra chalcogramma), Extra Mature Cheddar Cheese (Cows' Milk), King Prawns (Penaeus vannamel), Water, Breadcrumb (Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Palm Oil, Salt, Yeast), Double Cream (Cows' Milk), Onion, Cornflour, White Wine, Butter (Cows' Milk), Tapioca Starch, Parsley, Fish Gelatine, Salt, Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), White Pepper

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E170 Calcium carbonates , E170i Calcium carbonate , E428 Gelatine

As written on the pack

Potato, Semi Skimmed Cows' Milk, MSC Certified Dyed Smoked Haddock (Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) (Fish) (8%), Colour: Curcumin; Salt), MSC Certified Salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, Oncorhynchus keta) (Fish) (7%), MSC Certified Pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) (Fish) (6%), Extra Mature Cheddar Cheese (Cows' Milk) (5%), King Prawns (Penaeus vannamel) (Crustacean) (5%), Water, Breadcrumb (Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Palm Oil, Salt, Yeast), Double Cream (Cows' Milk), Onion, Cornflour, White Wine, Butter (Cows' Milk), Tapioca Starch, Parsley, Fish Gelatine, Salt, Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), White Pepper.

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.

  • E100 Curcumin Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • E170 Calcium carbonates Calcium carbonate is chalk.
  • E428 Gelatine Gelatine is a gelling agent made from collagen in animal skin and bones.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
5 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.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 64 meals with fish

From least to most processed, this one ranks 48th. 78% of the meals with fish 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 64 meals with fish, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 01151428, last edited 19 June 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.