Beef Shepherd's Pie
Beef Shepherd's Pie by Big Y has 1 tracked ingredient, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is C.
- Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Snacks / Sweet snacks / Biscuits and cakes / Cakes
How This Score Is Built
This 1-5 scale is an editorially-derived index, not an official government rating -- it synthesizes FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research. For Beef Shepherd's Pie, 1 of its 1 tracked ingredient carries a scored rating so far, current as of 2026-09-07.
Data draws on Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records -- cross-check with the FDA → directly, or read how we score it.
Where Beef Shepherd's Pie sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4 Top 80% higher than 20% of 58,710 scored products
Average ingredient safety score (1 = highest risk, 5 = safest), bucketed by value
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Source PlainIngredients ingredient safety index · 2026-09-07
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
Ultra-processed products are formulations made mostly or entirely from substances derived from foods and additives. They typically contain ingredients not commonly used in home cooking.
Full Ingredients List
Mashed potatoes (potatoes, water, skim milk, soybean oil, cream cheese [pasteurized milk and cream, cheese culture, salt, stabilizers (carob bean and/or guar gum and/or xanthan gum)], butter [cream, salt], salt, maltodextrin, mono and diglycerides, natural flavor, onion powder, disodium dihydrogen pyrophosphate [to promote color retention]), beef, corn (golden whole kernel corn, water, sugar, salt), water, onion, gravy seasoning (modified cornstarch, maltodextrin, wheat flour, salt, soybean oil, beef fat [tbhq and citric acid added to improve stability], caramel color, sugar, less than 2% of whey, autolyzed yeast extract, silicon dioxide, potassium chloride, disodium inosinate/disodium guanylate, hydrolyzed wheat and corn gluten, hydrolyzed soy and wheat proteins, spices, natural and artificial flavors, lactic acid, beef powder, corn syrup solids, calcium lactate, onion powder, ammonium chloride, beef stock, garlic powder, tricalcium phosphate, modified tapioca starch, rum, citric acid
Product Details
- Brand
- Big Y
- Barcode
- 0018894904410
- Nutri-Score
- Grade C
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Beef Shepherd's Pie's safety score compare to other products?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Beef Shepherd's Pie's 4/5 average puts it in the lower 80%, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 4/5 rating on Beef Shepherd's Pie?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Beef Shepherd's Pie's mapped ingredients average out to 4/5, which is the Low Risk tier.
Every figure on PlainIngredients is rendered directly from FDA, EU, EFSA and U.S. state regulatory records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.