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No — Roast Beef Dinner is not ultra-processed.
A hearty meal made with familiar, minimally processed ingredients.
This appears to be a beef stew made primarily from potatoes, beef, vegetables, stock, wine, butter, and seasonings. The ingredients are conventional culinary foods and basic cooking ingredients. Tapioca starch and potato starch are simple starches used for thickening, while plain colour is not sufficiently specified but does not clearly identify an industrial UPF additive. No artificial sweeteners, flavour enhancers, emulsifiers, stabilizers, refined industrial syrups, hydrogenated or interesterified oils, or flavourings are identified. Therefore, it is not classified as ultra-processed.
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No — Roast Beef Dinner by Marks & Spencer is not ultra-processed, so it is not a UPF (ultra-processed food). This appears to be a beef stew made primarily from potatoes, beef, vegetables, stock, wine, butter, and seasonings. The ingredients are conventional culinary foods and basic cooking ingredients. Tapioca starch and potato starch are simple starches used for thickening, while plain colour is not sufficiently specified but does not clearly identify an industrial UPF additive. No artificial sweeteners, flavour enhancers, emulsifiers, stabilizers, refined industrial syrups, hydrogenated or interesterified oils, or flavourings are identified. Therefore, it is not classified as ultra-processed.
Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are industrial formulations made with ingredients and additives you wouldn't find in a home kitchen — such as emulsifiers, artificial flavourings, colourings and modified starches. The classification is based on the NOVA system used by researchers and dietitians worldwide.
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Product information comes from public databases and Nomi's own analysis, and may contain errors. Always check the packaging. Ultra-processed classification is based on the NOVA food processing system.