Is Waitrose Chicken & gravy pie ultra-processed?
It's processed, but not ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Whole foods combined with:
- 25 ingredients
- No additives
- Nutri-Score C
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), chicken 29%, water, vegetable oils (processing marker) (palm oil, rapeseed oil), pork lard, onion, cornflour, salt (processing marker), yeast extract powder, free range egg, chicken, tomato paste, barley malt extract, potato, chicken fat, black pepper, thyme, sage
As written on the pack
Wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), chicken (29%), water, vegetable oils (palm oil (certified sustainable), rapeseed oil), pork lard, onion, cornflour, salt, yeast extract powder, pasteurised free range egg. chicken extract, tomato paste, barley malt extract, potato, chicken fat, ground black pepper, thyme, sage
What makes it processed
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.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
Among 38 meat pies
From least to most processed, this one ranks 4th. 71% of the meat pies here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000169654446, 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.