Mercadona triumphs with its new meat product: “It is perfect for Christmas”

This is Rellenito de vaca with raisins and pine nuts, a beef roll that is sold ready to cook. The ideal, as the article indicates on the label itself, is to roast it in the oven for just over an hour. To serve it, some customers highlight that it is ideal with mashed potatoes.

This roll is only usually for sale in Mercadona establishments in periods close to Christmas. For this reason, many consumers say that they take advantage of these dates to stock up and freeze.

The Rellenito de Vaccine with Raisins and Pine Nuts weighs approximately one kilo. In addition to beef, it also has pork meat and bacon, raisins, pine nuts, sunflower oil, leek, pepper, garlic or celery. It has about 225 kilocalories per 100 grams and is sold at 8.55 euros per unit.

As the label reflects, it is made by Coopecarn, a company based in Quart, Girona, a few kilometers from the airport of the provincial capital. This is not the only product they sell to Mercadona, which also has marinated pork loin, garlic, sirloin or bacon from the Catalan company on its shelves.

For its part, Mercadona is the main supermarket chain in Spain. It was founded in 1977 by Francisco Roig and currently has more than 1,600 stores, some of them in Portugal, and more than 90,000 employees. The company had a turnover of more than 24,000 million euros.

One of Mercadona's great successes is its white label. hacendado, in food, or Deliplus, in cosmetics, have become true fixtures for customers.