Is Asda Finely Sliced Topside of Beef ultra-processed?

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Yes, it's ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Beef, Dextrose (ultra-processing marker), Salt (processing marker), Stabiliser (Triphosphates (ultra-processing marker))

Additives: E451 Triphosphates

As written on the pack

Beef*, Dextrose, Salt, Stabiliser (Triphosphates).

Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.

E451 Triphosphates Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.

Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.

Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.

1 ingredient that would only make it processed

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 27451687, last edited 27 March 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
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The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of C (from A, best, to E).
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