Is it ultra-processed?
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Canned meats, from least to most processed

We track 39 canned meats, 56% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Organic Roasted Chicken Breast.

What makes canned meats ultra-processed

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

Unprocessed or minimally processed (2)

  1. 1 Organic Roasted Chicken Breast Wild Planet · 5 oz 1
  2. 2 Shredded Chicken Woolworths · 8 1

Processed food (15)

  1. 3 Premium Natural* Chunk Chicken Breast in Water Member's Mark · 354g 3
  2. 4 Natural Chunk Chicken Breast in Water Member's Mark · 75 oz 3
  3. 5 Calamari pieces in olive oil Trader Joe's · 3.91 oz 3
  4. 6 Princess Beef Paste Princes · 75g 3
  5. 7 Corned Beef Princes · 340 g 3
  6. 8 Corned Beef Lidl · 340 g 3
  7. 9 Princes Corned Beef Princes 3
  8. 10 Corned beef Asda · 340g 3
  9. 11 corned beef 3
  10. 12 Corned Beef Libby's · 340 g 3
  11. 13 Ox & palm, corned beef with juices Ox & Palm · 15 oz 3
  12. 14 Corned Beef Aldi · 340g 3
  13. 15 The Deli 5 Slices Corned Beef Aldi · 175 g 3
  14. 16 Hereford, corned beef Hereford · 12 oz 3
  15. 17 Chopped Ham Mario's · 340g 3

Ultra-processed food (22)

  1. 18 Chicken Breast with Rib Meat in Water Brookdale 4
  2. 19 White Premium Chunk Chicken Breast Great Value 4
  3. 20 White Premium Chunk Chicken Breast Swanson 4
  4. 21 Chunk chicken breast Great Value · 50 oz 4
  5. 22 SPAM Classic Spam · 12 oz (340 g) 4
  6. 23 Jamonilla classic precooked ham Tulip · 340 g 4
  7. 24 Luncheon Meat Brookdale · 340 g 4
  8. 25 Spam 25% Less Sodium Spam · 12 Oz 4
  9. 26 Spam Less sodium Hormel · 48 oz 4
  10. 27 Spam Lite Spam · 340g 4
  11. 28 Premium Chunk White Chicken In Water Crider · 12.5 oz (354g) 4
  12. 29 SPAM chopped pork and ham Hormel · 200g 4
  13. 30 Chunk Chicken Breast Costco Companies Inc. · 354 g 4
  14. 31 Seasoned Chunk Chicken Breast Kirkland · 354 g 4
  15. 32 Seasoned Chunk Chicken Breast Kirkland Signature · 6 x 354 g 4
  16. 33 Chunk Chicken Breast with Rib Meat Great Value · 354g 4
  17. 34 Gullash (oksekød); Goveđi gulaš Podravka · 300 g 4
  18. 35 Chopped Pork And Ham Spam · 340g 4
  19. 36 Oven Roasted Turkey Spam 4
  20. 37 Vienna Sausage Armour · 4.6oz 4
  21. 38 Vienna bites Armour 4
  22. 39 SPAM 25% Less Sodium Hormel Foods · 340g 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.