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Is Ashfields Chicken Sausages ultra-processed?

340 g Chicken sausages Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Ashfields Chicken Sausages

Yes, it's ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 29 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed chicken sausages

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

chicken 80%, Water, Rice Flour, Chickpea Flour, Potato Fibre, Sea Salt, Diphosphates, Black Pepper, Cornflour, Flavouring, Dextrose, Sodium Metabisulphite, Ascorbic Acid, Filled into Vegetable Based Casings (Calcium Alginate), Typical values per 10 Carbohydrate, use by (See front of This product is suitable for cooking in an Air Fryer, Please refer to fridge, Once opened the manufacturer's instructions for your air fryer, freezing), Suitable ALLERGY ADVICE, warning (Although every effort has been made to remove bones), some small bones may remain, values per 2 sausage saturates, Carb, Defrost thoroughly a Never defrost in a wa Il ALDI 340g UK, jf062 ec

Additives: E223 Sodium metabisulphite , E300 Ascorbic acid , E404 Calcium alginate , E450 Diphosphates

As written on the pack

CHICKEN (80%), Water, Rice Flour, Chickpea Flour, Potato Fibre, Sea Salt, Stabiliser: Diphosphates; Black Pepper, Cornflour, Flavouring, Dextrose, Preservative: Sodium Metabisulphite; Antioxidant: Ascorbic Acid. Filled into Vegetable Based Casings (Calcium Alginate). Typical values per 10 Carbohydrate 9.5g, USE BY: See front of This product is suitable for cooking in an Air Fryer. Please refer to fridge. Once opened the manufacturer's instructions for your air fryer. FREEZING: Suitable ALLERGY ADVICE: For allergens, see ingredients in bold. WARNING: Although every effort has been made to remove bones, some small bones may remain. values per 2 sausage saturates 1.3g, Carb 1.53g. Defrost thoroughly a Never defrost in a wa Il ALDI 340g UK (NI) JF062 EC

What makes it ultra-processed

Cosmetic additives

Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • E404 Calcium alginate A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
  • E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

Substances rarely used in home kitchens

Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
3 ingredients that would only make it processed

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Prepared meats Products in the category "Prepared meats" are at least group 3.
  • Sausages Products in the category "Sausages" are at least group 3.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 30 chicken sausages

From least to most processed, this one ranks 30th. 70% of the chicken sausages here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 30 chicken sausages, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4061459916959, last edited 7 September 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
  • NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.