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Prepared beef meats, from least to most processed

We track 39 prepared beef meats, 46% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Corned Beef Slices.

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What makes prepared beef meats ultra-processed

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

Processed food (21)

  1. 1 Corned Beef Slices 125 g 3
  2. 2 Original Beef Mini Stick Chomps 3
  3. 3 Jalapeno Beef Stick Paleovalley · 1 oz 3
  4. 4 American Wagyu Beef Jerky Snake River Farms · 283g 3
  5. 5 Grass-Fed Beef Jerky Mango Habanero Archer · 16 oz 3
  6. 6 Pork Jerky Golden island 3
  7. 7 Corned Beef Princes · 340 g 3
  8. 8 Corned Beef Lidl · 340 g 3
  9. 9 Princes Corned Beef Princes 3
  10. 10 corned beef 3
  11. 11 Corned beef slices Sainsbury's 3
  12. 12 Corned Beef Libby's · 340 g 3
  13. 13 Corned Beef Aldi · 340g 3
  14. 14 Hereford, corned beef Hereford · 12 oz 3
  15. 15 Corned beef The Deli 3
  16. 16 Original Beef Stick Chomps · 1.15 oz (33 g) 3
  17. 17 100% grass-fed beef minis Archer · 16 unit 3
  18. 18 Archer Original Beef Stick Mini Archer · 0.5 oz (14 g) 3
  19. 19 O.G. Hickory Savory & Smoky Beef Stick Righteous Felon 3
  20. 20 Minis Original Archer · 1 stick 14g 3
  21. 21 Wagyu Sausages Warrendale 3

Ultra-processed food (18)

  1. 22 Original Beef Jerky Tillamook Country Smoker 4
  2. 23 Steak Strips Beef Snacks Member's Mark · 12 oz 4
  3. 24 Original Beef Jerky Pacific Gold · 35 g 4
  4. 25 Grass-Fed Beef Jerky Archer · 2.5 oz 4
  5. 26 Jerky Jack links 4
  6. 27 Corned Beef Hash Homestyle Hormel Mary Kitchen · 2 4
  7. 28 Beef Jerky Old Trapper · 10 oz 4
  8. 29 Old Fashioned Beef Jerky Old Trapper · 18 oz 4
  9. 30 Biltong Lidl · 65g 4
  10. 31 Jack Links Beef Jerky Jalapeño Jack Link's · 80 g 4
  11. 32 Organic Original Beef Jerky Simply Nature · 71g 4
  12. 33 Original Recipe Smoked Shorty Sausages Duke's · 142 g 4
  13. 34 Steak Strips Kings · 60 g 4
  14. 35 Beef Jerky Sweet & Hot Jack Links 4
  15. 36 Jumbo Beef Franks Hebrew National 4
  16. 37 Beef Jerky Original Jack Link's · 2.85 oz 4
  17. 38 Original Beef Jerky Jack Link's · 80 g 4
  18. 39 Bresaola Zeta · 70g 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.