Is Specially Selected Creamy fish pie ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 39 ingredients
- 5 additives
- Nutri-Score C
Less processed fish preparations
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Potato, Milk, atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), dyed smoked haddock 7% (Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), Salt Cofen Gurturin, Annatto Norbixin (ultra-processing marker)), Water, KING PRAWNS Prawns (Penaeus vannamei), Was SANTIC SALMON (Salmo salar), Mature Cheddar Cheese (processing marker), Double Cream, White Wine, Butter (processing marker), Cornflour, Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Salt (processing marker), Palm Oil (Palm Oil, Antioxidant (Extracts of Rosemary)), Parsley, Rapeseed Oil, White Pepper, Yeast, Caramelised Sugar (processing marker), Colour (ultra-processing marker) (Paprika Extract (ultra-processing marker)), Turmeric Extract (ultra-processing marker), Sunflower Oil (processing marker)
Additives: E100 Curcumin , E160b Annatto , E160bii Annatto norbixin , E160c Paprika extract , E392 Extracts of rosemary
As written on the pack
Potato, Milk, ATLANTIC COD (Gadus morhua) (FISH) (9%), DYED SMOKED HADDOCK (7%) (Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) (Fish), Salt Cofen Gurturin, Annatto Norbixin), Water, KING PRAWNS Prawns (Penaeus vannamei) (Crustacean), Was SANTIC SALMON (Salmo salar) (FISH) (4%), Mature Cheddar Cheese (Milk), Double Cream (Milk), White Wine, Butter (Milk), Cornflour, Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Salt, Palm Oil (Palm Oil, Antioxidant: Extracts of Rosemary), Parsley, Rapeseed Oil, White Pepper, Yeast, Caramelised Sugar, Colour: Paprika Extract; Turmeric Extract, Sunflower Oil. 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.
- 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.
- E160b Annatto 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.
- E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
- Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
6 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.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
- Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
Among 209 fish preparations
From least to most processed, this one ranks 172nd. 74% of the fish preparations here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600047546, 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.