Product Insight: Beef Shepherd's Pie
Beef Shepherd's Pie by Signature Cafe is tracked in PlainIngredients with 1 identified ingredient and carries an overall safety rating of 4 out of 5 — a Low-Risk-to-Safe tier backed by FDA and EU regulatory status. On the NOVA processing scale, this product falls into Group 4 (Ultra-processed foods), a standard framework for classifying how heavily food has been industrially modified before reaching the shelf, and no Nutri-Score label has been assigned by Open Food Facts contributors. Within the identified ingredient list, no ingredient on this product currently carries a Caution or High-Risk flag in our database, while 1 ingredient sit at the Low-Risk or Safe end of the scale.
Our composite score weighs each ingredient's U.S. FDA regulatory status (GRAS, Approved, or Banned), European Union food-additive status under Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, any U.S. state-level restrictions, and signals drawn from peer-reviewed toxicology literature. The per-product score is the mean of the per-ingredient ratings and should be read as a structured summary rather than a clinical verdict; edge cases such as cumulative exposure, individual allergies, and dietary interactions are not captured by a single number and are better addressed by reading the individual ingredient pages linked below.
Sources: Open Food Facts (product + ingredient list, CC0 licensed) · FDA SAFFA · EU Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 · U.S. state food-safety statutes
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, salt, disodium dihydrogen pyrophosphate [maintains color], sodium benzoate [maintains freshness], dextrose), ground beef, water, milk (whole milk, vitamin d added), vegetables blend (peas, corn, carrots, green beans), cheddar cheese (milk, cheese cultures, salt, cheese color, enzymes), margarine (liquid and partially hydrogenated soybean oil, water, salt, monoglycerides, soy lecithin), mushrooms, tomatoes, modified corn starch, beef base (roasted beef, concentrated beef stock, salt, yeast extract, maltodextrin [from corn], corn oil, sugar, dried onion, dried garlic, dried whey, caramel color, spice extractives), cream, onion, mushroom base (mushrooms, maltodextrin, corn oil, autolyzed yeast extract, salt, mushroom concentrate, sugar, onion powder, butter, natural flavors), modified corn starch, garlic, salt, sugar, spices.
Data Sources
- Open Food Facts — Product data and ingredient lists
- FDA Substances Added to Food (SAFFA) Inventory — Safety scores
- EU Food Additive Regulations (EC) No 1333/2008
Product Details
- Brand
- Signature Cafe
- Barcode
- 0021130068265
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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