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Bacon rashers, from least to most processed

We track 15 bacon rashers, 20% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Outdoor Bred Smoked Back Bacon.

What makes bacon rashers ultra-processed

The signs of ultra-processing found most often, and the share of bacon rashers that contain each:

Processed food (12)

  1. 1 Outdoor Bred Smoked Back Bacon The Jolly Hog 3
  2. 2 Wiltshire Cured Back Bacon Medallions Tesco Finest · 200g 3
  3. 3 Unsmoked Rashers Jolly hog · 200g (6 rashers) 3
  4. 4 12 oak & beech smoked dry cured streaky bacon rashes 3
  5. 5 10 Smoked Back Bacon Rashers Tesco 3
  6. 6 Butcher's Selection Smoked Back Bacon Rashers Asda 3
  7. 7 6 Smoked Back Bacon Rashers Thick Cut Tesco 3
  8. 8 Dry Cured Smoked Back Bacon Rashers Co-op · 230 3
  9. 9 Unsmoked British Bacon Medallions Sainsburys · 200g 3
  10. 10 Oak Smoked Dry Cured Streaky Bacon Rashers Sainsbury's · 220 g 3
  11. 11 Unsmoked bacon Morrisons 3
  12. 12 Ayrshire Middle Bacon Robertson's · 200g 3

Ultra-processed food (3)

  1. 13 unsmoked back bacon rashers Finnebrogue · 200g 4
  2. 14 12 Smoked British Streaky Bacon Rashers Waitrose 4
  3. 15 Bacon Rashers Tesco freeFROM · 150g 4

Within each group, products with fewer signs of ultra-processing, additives and ingredients come first. This ordering is ours, for comparison; it is not part of NOVA.