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Is Tesco Baked Beans & Pork Sausages in Tomato Sauce ultra-processed?

395g Baked beans in tomato sauce Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Tesco Baked Beans & Pork Sausages in Tomato Sauce

Yes, it's ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 40 ingredients
  • 1 additive

Less processed baked beans in tomato sauce

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Haricot Beans 41% (Haricot Beans, Water), Tomato Purėe, Starch, Salt, Milk Sugar, Herb, Spice Extracts (Pepper Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Pork Fat, Potato Pork Sausages 16%, Pork, Water, Wheat Flour, Wheat Starch, Salt, Milk Sugar, Herb, Spice Extracts (Pepper Sage, Nutmeg, Mace, Cayenne Pepper, Ginger), Yeast Extrac, Water, Sugar, Modified Maize Starch, Salt, Onion, Paprika, Paprika Extract, Flavouring, Made using British pork ausage filled into U.K, and non-U.K, beef casings

Additives: E160c Paprika extract

As written on the pack

Haricot Beans (41%) (Haricot Beans, Water), Tomato Purėe, Starch, Salt, Milk Sugar, Herb and Spice Extracts (Pepper Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Pork Fat, Potato Pork Sausages (16%) [Pork, Water, Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour Starch, Salt, Milk Sugar, Herb and Spice Extracts (Pepper Sage, Nutmeg, Mace, Cayenne Pepper, Ginger), Yeast Extrac. Water, Sugar, Modified Maize Starch, Salt, Onion Powder. Paprika, Paprika Extract, Flavouring. Made using British pork ausage filled into U.K. & non-U.K. beef casings.

What makes it ultra-processed

Cosmetic additives

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

  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.

Substances rarely used in home kitchens

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

  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
6 ingredients that would only make it processed

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

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Prepared meats Products in the category "Prepared meats" are at least group 3.
  • Sausages Products in the category "Sausages" are at least group 3.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 114 baked beans in tomato sauce

From least to most processed, this one ranks 90th. 82% of the baked beans in tomato sauce here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 114 baked beans in tomato sauce, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5018374441089, last edited 16 March 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.