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Is Sainsbury's Steak & Gravy Puff Pastry Pie ultra-processed?

550 g Meat pies Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsbury's Steak & Gravy Puff Pastry 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:

  • 51 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

British Beef 32%, Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin), Palm Oil, Ale 9% (Barley), Water, Rapeseed Oil, Onion, Cornflour, Beef Stock (Beef Bone, Water, Cornflour, Sugar, Tomato Paste, Beef Extract, Beef Fat, Beef, Onion, Salt), Free Range Egg, Beef Dripping, Salt, Tomato Paste, Malted Barley Extract, Caramelised Sugar, Yeast Extract, Onion, Black Pepper, Bay, Worcestershire Sauce (Malt Vinegar (from Barley), Water, Black Treacle, Salt, Spices (Clove, Ginger Powder, Paprika Powder, Pimento, White Pepper), Tamarind, Onion, Garlic), White Pepper

As written on the pack

British Beef (32%), Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin), Palm Oil, Ale (9%) (Barley), Water, Rapeseed Oil, Onion, Cornflour, Beef Stock (Beef Bone, Water, Cornflour, Sugar, Tomato Paste, Beef Extract, Beef Fat, Beef, Onion Concentrate, Salt), Pasteurised Free Range Egg, Beef Dripping, Salt, Tomato Paste, Malted Barley Extract, Caramelised Sugar, Yeast Extract, Onion Powder, Black Pepper, Bay, Worcestershire Sauce (Malt Vinegar (from Barley), Water, Black Treacle, Salt, Ground Spices (Clove Powder, Ginger Powder, Paprika Powder, Pimento, White Pepper) Tamarind Concentrate, Onion Powder, Garlic Powder), 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 38 meat pies

From least to most processed, this one ranks 8th. 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 00374507, 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.