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Is Tesco Finest Streak & Ale Pie ultra-processed?

250g Meat pies Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Tesco Finest Streak & Ale 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:

  • 32 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Beef 34%, Wheat Flour (Wheat Four, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Butter 16%, Ale (Barley), Cornflour, Onion, Egg, Salt, Beef Extract, Black Treacle, Yeast Extract, Tomato Paste, Rapeseed Oil, Malted Barley, Maize Starch, Garlic, Sage, Lemon Juice, Parsley, Sugar, Black Pepper, Tomato Purée, Thyme, Sunflower Oil, Carrot, White Pepper

As written on the pack

Beef (34%), Wheat Flour (Wheat Four, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Butter (16%) (Milk), Ale (Barley) (12%), Cornflour, Onion, Pasteurised Egg, Salt, Beef Extract, Black Treacle, Yeast Extract, Tomato Paste, Rapeseed Oil, Malted Barley, Maize Starch, Garlic, Sage, Lemon Juice, Parsley, Sugar, Black Pepper, Tomato Purée, Thyme, Sunflower Oil, Carrot, White Pepper.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 38 meat pies

From least to most processed, this one ranks 7th. 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 5057008425132, last edited 13 July 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.