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Is Taste the Difference Chicken, Bacon and Leek Pie ultra-processed?

400g Meals with chicken Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Taste the Difference Chicken, Bacon and Leek 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:

  • 42 ingredients
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score B

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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, British Chicken 16% (Chicken Breast, Rapeseed Oil, Cornflour, Salt, Garlic Purée, Black Pepper), Water, Cows' Milk, Leek 6%, Mature Cheddar Cheese 5% (Cows' Milk), Beechwood Smoked British Bacon Lardons with Added Water 4% (Pork, Water, Salt, Antioxidant (Sodium Ascorbate), Preservative (Sodium Nitrite)), Red Leicester Cheese 2% (Cows' Milk, with Colour (Beta Carotene)), Butter (Cows' Milk), Double Cream (Cows' Milk), Extra Mature Cheddar Cheese 1.5% (Cows' Milk), Cornflour, Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Salt, Mustard, White Pepper, Bay Leaf

Additives: E160a Carotene , E160ai Beta-carotene , E170 Calcium carbonates , E170i Calcium carbonate , E250 Sodium nitrite , E301 Sodium ascorbate

As written on the pack

Potato, Cooked Marinated British Chicken (16%) (Chicken Breast, Rapeseed Oil, Cornflour, Salt, Garlic Purée, Black Pepper), Water, Whole Cows' Milk, Leek (6%). Mature Cheddar Cheese (5%) (Cows' Milk), Beechwood Smoked British Bacon Lardons with Added Water (4%) (Pork, Water, Salt, Antioxidant: Sodium Ascorbate; Preservative: Sodium Nitrite), Red Leicester Cheese (2%) (Cows' Milk) (with Colour: Beta Carotene), Butter (Cows' Milk), Double Cream (Cows' Milk), Extra Mature Cheddar Cheese (1.5%) (Cows' Milk), Cornflour, Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Salt, Mustard Powder, White Pepper, Bay Leaf.

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.

  • E160a Carotene Carotenes are orange-yellow pigments, either synthesised or extracted from carrots, algae or palm oil.
  • E170 Calcium carbonates Calcium carbonate is chalk.
  • 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.

  • 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.
  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 213 meals with chicken

From least to most processed, this one ranks 166th. 79% of the meals with chicken 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.

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About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00357579, 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.