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Is Tesco Slow cooked lamb shoulder with garlic & rosemary jus ultra-processed?

400g Lamb meat Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Tesco Slow cooked lamb shoulder with garlic & rosemary jus

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

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

Whole foods combined with:

  • 31 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed lamb meat

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

Lamb 78%, Water, Onion, Garlic, Rosemary, Thyme Seasoning (Sugar, Sea Salt, Dried Onion, Dried Garlic, Rosemary, Black Pepper, Rapeseed Oil, Thyme, Parsley), Red Wine, Cornflour, Sugar, Red Wine Vinegar, Tomato Purée, Salt, Yeast Extract, Caramelised Sugar, Lamb, Garlic Purée, Spirit Vinegar, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Onion, Rosemary, Caramelised Sugar Syrup, Black Pepper

As written on the pack

Lamb 78%, Water, Onion Purée, Garlic, Rosemary and Thyme Seasoning (Sugar, Sea Salt, Dried Onion, Dried Garlic, Rosemary, Black Pepper, Rapeseed Oil, Thyme, Parsley), Red Wine, Cornflour, Sugar, Red Wine Vinegar, Tomato Purée, Salt, Yeast Extract, Caramelised Sugar, Lamb Extract, Garlic Purée, Spirit Vinegar, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Onion, Rosemary, Caramelised Sugar Syrup, Black Pepper.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 11 lamb meat

From least to most processed, this one ranks 5th. 45% of the lamb meat 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 11 lamb meat, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5059697722660, 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.
  • 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.