Nope, not tinned--it's pressed meat, (http://www.buddig.com/original_cb-nutr-2-5.html) very thinly sliced and sold in small pouches. You can usually find it with other processed meats like hot dogs, sausages and pre-packaged cold cuts. Truthfully, we probably don't want to know what that processing entails, but nutritionally I think it's about as lean as any other cold cut.