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Is Tesco Finest Bourbon pulled beef & mash ultra-processed?

400g Beef Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Tesco Finest Bourbon pulled beef & mash

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:

  • 44 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score B

Less processed beef

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

Mashed Potato (Potato, Water, Whole Milk, Butter, Single Cream, Salt, White Pepper), Water, Cooked Pulled Beef 17% (Beef, Cornflour, Sugar, Cumin, Smoked Paprika, Garlic, Mustard, Onion, Black Pepper), Dark Muscovado Sugar, Cornflour, Onion, Honey, Red Wine Vinegar, Beef Extract, Bourbon Whiskey 0.9%, Sugar, Tomato Paste, Rapeseed Oil, Ginger, Spirit Vinegar, Beef Gelatine, Palm Oil, Garlic Purée, Smoked Paprika, Black Mustard Seed, Wheat Flour, Salt, Onion, Beef Fat, Caramelised Sugar Syrup, Chilli, Clove, White Pepper

Additives: E428 Gelatine

As written on the pack

Mashed Potato [Potato, Water, Whole Milk, Butter (Milk), Single Cream (Milk), Salt, White Pepper], Water, Cooked Pulled Beef (17%) [Beef, Cornflour, Sugar, Cumin, Smoked Paprika, Garlic Powder, Mustard Powder, Smoked Onion Powder, Black Pepper], Dark Muscovado Sugar, Cornflour, Onion, Honey, Red Wine Vinegar, Beef Extract, Bourbon Whiskey (0.9%), Sugar, Tomato Paste, Rapeseed Oil, Ginger Purée, Spirit Vinegar, Beef Gelatine, Palm Oil, Garlic Purée, Smoked Paprika, Black Mustard Seed, Wheat Flour, Salt, Concentrated Onion Juice, Beef Fat, Caramelised Sugar Syrup, Chilli Powder, Ground Clove, White Pepper.

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.

  • E428 Gelatine Gelatine is a gelling agent made from collagen in animal skin and bones.
4 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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 103 beef

From least to most processed, this one ranks 68th. 49% of the beef 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 103 beef, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5059512730115, last edited 11 April 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.
  • NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.