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Canned corned beef: what's actually in it?

Canned corned beef on the Singapore shelf is an imported shelf: Brazilian, American, Australian and Caribbean brands in 340 g and 326 g cans. Every panelled product is cooked beef plus salt plus a nitrite (or nitrate) cure — the differences are whether water, sugar and offal are in the list, and how much beef the can actually contains.

This page does not give a health score or a "best" pick. It shows the ingredient list as printed, with the country of manufacture as printed, and flags added sugar, allergens and additives.

The headline, in 30 seconds

All panelled corned beef contains sodium nitrite (E250) — the curing salt that keeps the meat pink and shelf-stable. Ox & Palm listings disagree on nitrite vs nitrate; the conflict is flagged on its panel.
Sugar is in most lists (Libby's, Hereford's US listing, Grace) but not in Ox & Palm's short list (cooked beef, water, salt, sodium nitrite).
Hereford's beef share is unusually explicit: 98.7% beef (55% beef meat, the rest offal) on the French list — but the SG-sold can is marked Product of Brazil, so the French list and the SG can may not be the same product.
Salt runs 1.4–2.2 g per 100 g across the panelled rows where salt is printed — roughly a third to nearly half of a day's salt in 100 g.
Palm is the thin spot: the brand is on the SG shelf, but no verbatim list was retrieved, so it stays seen-but-not-verified.

At a glance

Product	Pack size (as printed)	First ingredient	Country of manufacture (as printed)	Added sugar?
Libby's Corned Beef	340g	Cooked beef	Brazil, USA, Uruguay (US retailer)	Yes — sugar
Hereford Corned Beef 340 g	340g	Beef 98.7%	France (French list) / Brazil (SG can) — conflict	Yes — sugar (US listing); no sugar on French list
Grace Corned Beef 340 g	340g	Cooked beef	not stated	Yes — sugar
Ox & Palm Corned Beef Original Chunky Style	not stated	Cooked beef	Australia	No sugar listed

Panelled with verbatim lists: 4 products. Seen-but-not-verified: see the list below. No prices are shown: they change weekly and would go stale. This site compares ingredients only.

Panelled — canned corned beef

Libby's Corned Beef, 340 g

Pack size: 340g · Made in: Brazil, USA, Uruguay (US retailer) (as printed)

Ingredients (US retailer ingredient sections (Pick 'n Save, Harris Teeter, GIANT Food Stores — agreeing lists)): Cooked Beef, Beef, Water, Salt, Sugar, Sodium Nitrite.

Flag: US retailer lists; the SG pack was not transcribed in this pass. The same six-item list appears across many US retailers and on EWG's pack transcription. A Facebook pack comparison dated 29 October 2026 shows the SG-market Libby's can marked Product of Brazil, 340 g. Country of manufacture: Brazil, USA, Uruguay (per US retailer country-of-origin field) Allergens: none declared Added sugar: sugar

Hereford Corned Beef, 340 g — list conflicted

Pack size: 340g · Made in: France (French list) / Brazil (SG can) — conflict (as printed)

Ingredients (Open Food Facts, French and German entries): Beef 98.7% (beef meat 55%, offal), salt, preservative: sodium nitrite (E250).

Conflict flagged: the French list gives beef 98.7% (55% beef meat, the rest offal) with no sugar and no water; a US Hereford listing gives "Cooked beef, Beef, Salt, Sugar, Sodium nitrite" — with sugar and no offal. The SG-sold 340 g can is marked Product of Brazil. These cannot all describe one identical product, so the French list is panelled as the French list and the SG pack must settle it. Per-100 g nutrition below is from the German Open Food Facts entry for the 340 g can. Country of manufacture: France (per French retailer listing) — conflicts with SG can marked Product of Brazil Beef 98.7% Offal included Preservative: E250

Grace Corned Beef, 340 g

Pack size: 340g · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (Open Food Facts (Canadian entry) and USDA branded-foods data, agreeing): Cooked beef, Beef, Salt, Sugar, Sodium nitrite.

Flag: Open Food Facts / USDA lists; the SG pack was not transcribed in this pass. Grace is a Jamaican brand sold in Singapore through import channels. A reduced-sodium Grace variant exists with the same list and lower salt (1.56 g per 100 g) — it is noted here, not panelled separately, until an SG pack is checked. Country of manufacture: not stated Added sugar: sugar Preservative: E250

Ox & Palm Corned Beef — Original Chunky Style

Pack size: not stated · Made in: Australia (as printed)

Ingredients (Multiple secondary listings (retailer and review-site transcriptions of the can)): Cooked Beef, Water, Salt, Sodium Nitrite.

Conflict flagged: some listings transcribe the cure as sodium nitrate rather than sodium nitrite (one review site gives "sodium nitrate" in its summary and "sodium nitrite" on the can photo). This page panels sodium nitrite per the can-photo transcription and flags the nitrate variant. It is the shortest list on the page — four items, no sugar, no second beef entry. Country of manufacture: Australia (premium Australian Angus beef, per brand) No sugar listed No extenders, no MSG (brand claims)

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

Palm Corned Beef (Original, Chunky, Chilli) — on the SG shelf (a pack comparison shows Palm Chunky Corned Beef With Juices, Product of New Zealand, 326 g), but no verbatim ingredient list was retrieved in this pass. Per-serving nutrition exists (160 kcal, 12 g fat, 13 g protein per 56 g) but without a list it stays seen-but-not-verified.
Phoenicia Corned Beef, Mario's Corned Beef, Hertford Fine Foods Corned Beef, New Zealand Premium Quality Corned Beef — all appear in an October 2026 pack comparison of corned beef cans; SG sale and lists not verified for any of them.
Hereford reduced-sodium / other Hereford sizes (200 g) — the 200 g Open Food Facts entries carry no usable ingredient list (one is a garbled product-code string), so they are not panelled.
Grace Reduced Sodium Corned Beef — list as Grace above with salt 1.56 g per 100 g; SG pack not checked, so not panelled as a separate row.
Corned beef hash — a different product (beef plus potato); out of scope here.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

All figures in the sortable table are as sold, per 100 g / 100 ml. Click a column header to sort lowest-to-highest, click again for highest-to-lowest; "not stated" always sorts last, because a missing figure is not zero. Per-serving-only figures are in a separate table below and are never sorted against per-100 figures. No Nutri-Grade applies to these foods as non-drinks, except where a drink Nutri-Grade is officially printed — none is quoted or assigned here.

Salt and sodium: salt = sodium × 2.5. The table shows sodium as printed (in mg) with the salt equivalent in brackets. Where the source prints salt only, sodium is shown as salt ÷ 2.5 and flagged as derived. Sodium is not presented as salt, and salt is not presented as sodium.

Total vs added sugars: most Singapore packs list total sugars, not added sugars. A total-sugars figure is never labelled here as "added sugar". Where a source states an added-sugars figure separately, it is noted. The ingredient list remains the evidence for added sugar (sugar, glucose syrup, invert sugar syrup) versus naturally occurring sugars.

Open Food Facts is a community database and is flagged as secondary where used: the pack and the retailer nutrition section take precedence if they disagree. Figures marked "not stated" were not in the source retrieved; they are not estimated, borrowed from another variant, or copied across flavours.

Product	Energy	Protein	Total fat	Saturated fat	Carbohydrate	Sugars	Sodium (salt equiv.)
Hereford Corned Beef 340 g	232 kcal	24.2 g	14.8 g	6 g	0.5 g	0 g	600 mg (salt 1.5 g) — sodium derived from printed salt
Grace Corned Beef 340 g	232 kcal	25 g	14.3 g	7.14 g	1.8 g	1.79 g	875 mg (salt 2.19 g)

Per-serving figures only — quoted exactly as printed, not converted

Product	Serving as printed	Energy	Protein	Total fat	Saturated fat	Carbohydrate	Sugars	Sodium (salt equiv.)
Libby's Corned Beef	2 oz (56 g)	130 kcal	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated
Ox & Palm Corned Beef Original Chunky Style	2 oz (56 g)	150 kcal	11 g	11 g	not stated	not stated	not stated	not stated

These rows are per serving, not per 100 g / 100 ml — do not compare them with the table above.

Observed numbers, no verdict: Hereford and Grace both list 232 kcal per 100 g, with protein 24.2 g and 25 g respectively. Grace's salt (2.19 g per 100 g) is higher than Hereford's (1.5 g). No per-100 g panel was verified for Libby's or Ox & Palm, so their per-serving figures sit in the separate table and are not compared against these.

Seen but not verified (nutrition): no per-100 g nutrition panel was verified in this pass for Libby's Corned Beef or Ox & Palm Corned Beef. Their ingredient panels are unchanged. Palm nutrition exists only per serving and without a verified list, so it is not tabled.

How to read the label — the jargon, in plain English

Sodium nitrite (E250): A curing salt that keeps cured meat pink and inhibits bacterial growth. Present in every panelled corned beef here.
Sodium nitrate vs sodium nitrite: Two different curing salts. Nitrate converts to nitrite over time; nitrite acts directly. Listings that swap the two are a real conflict, not a spelling difference — flagged on the Ox & Palm panel.
Offal: Edible internal organs (heart, tripe and similar) used as part of the beef content. Hereford's French list states the beef is 55% beef meat and the rest offal.
Cooked beef vs beef: "Cooked beef" is beef that was cooked before canning; a list with both "cooked beef" and "beef" uses two beef entries, usually because part of the meat is added raw and cooked in the can.
With juices: The can contains the beef in its own cooking juices (water and meat juices), rather than a drained solid block.

What this page is not

Not a health score, and not a "best" pick. Different products in this category are different products, and this page does not rank them.
Not a taste test, and not a price comparison. Prices change weekly; ingredients change less often, but still change.
Not complete. The products in seen-but-not-verified are not yet panelled, for the verification reasons given, not hidden.

Sources and method

Checked 12 November 2026 from: US retailer ingredient sections for Libby's (Pick 'n Save, Harris Teeter, GIANT Food Stores, Fred Meyer — agreeing six-item lists); Open Food Facts French and German entries for Hereford 340 g and 330 g (ingredients and per-100 g nutrition) plus a French retail listing (lestresorsderable.com) corroborating the 98.7% beef list; Open Food Facts and USDA branded-foods data for Grace (ingredients and per-100 g nutrition); secondary retailer/review transcriptions for Ox & Palm (ingredients, per-serving nutrition, Australian origin) and Sure Keto per-serving data for Palm (not panelled — no list). A Facebook pack-comparison post dated 29 October 2026 was used only for SG-market can origins (Libby's Product of Brazil, Palm Product of New Zealand, Hereford Product of Brazil, Phoenicia Product of Brazil). Cold Storage publishes no ingredient list on any product page. Nutrition figures are standardised to per 100 g where the source gives per-100 figures; per-serving-only figures are labelled as such and are not converted; sugars are total sugars as printed, not added sugars, unless the source states added sugars; salt = sodium × 2.5. Where a full pack list could not be verified, the product is in seen-but-not-verified instead of being panelled.