British beef meatballs

Name: British beef meatballs
Brand: Tesco

Tesco

5053526774318

Processing

Ultra-processed

Group 4 of 4 on the NOVA scale

Additives listed

None we have assessed

1 of them not yet assessed here

Nutrients

–

Nothing above the low band

Or no figures recorded at all

Three separate readings, kept apart on purpose. This is not a score, and none of it says this product is harmful.

Additives (1)

This label lists 1 preservative.

Also on the label, not assessed here yet

E223 Sodium metabisulphite preservative

Names and jobs come from the register of additives permitted in Great Britain, which we have not finished transcribing: a code shown without a name is a gap in our coverage, not a finding that it is unapproved. Naming one is not grading it either. Full detail appears only where we have an assessment against a named authority, so all of this describes our coverage rather than these additives. Most are common and low concern.

Ingredients

British Beef (86%), Water, Rice Flour, Salt, Onion Powder, Dextrose, Sugar, Yeast Extract, Black Pepper, Sunflower Oil, Paprika, Vegetable Fibre, Preservative (Sodium _Metabisulphite_), White Pepper, Bay, Spice Extracts, Flavouring.

As printed on the pack, in the producer's own order: ingredients are listed by weight, so what comes first is most of what is in it. E numbers link to their assessment where we have one.

Processing level

NOVA group 4: Ultra-processed

Industrial formulations with additives, isolates and ingredients you would not cook with at home. The strongest modern evidence links high intake of these to poorer health outcomes.

Nutrients per 100g

Fat

–

No data

Saturates

–

No data

Sugars

–

No data

Salt

–

No data

Judged on the UK FSA front of pack thresholds for solid foods. A dash means the source has no figure, which is not the same as a low one.

Other packs of this product

Open Food Facts keeps a record for every barcode, so one product can appear several times. Each of these carries its own data, and may be fuller or thinner than this one.

British Beef Meatballs
5053526772994 NOVA 4

Where this came from

Product data from Open Food Facts, which is crowd sourced and can be incomplete or out of date. Photograph from the same source, under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike licence. Open Food Facts last changed this record on 30 May 2026, and our copy is from 20 August 2026. The source is checked every night, and a product is rewritten here only when its record there changes. Something wrong? Correcting it at the source fixes it here and everywhere else that uses the same data. If the problem is one of our additive assessments, tell us.

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