Is Field Roast Smoked Apple & Sage Plant-Based Sausages ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 18 ingredients
- No additives
- Nutri-Score D
Less processed vegetarian sausages
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Filtered water, vital wheat gluten (ultra-processing marker), safflower oil (processing marker), unsulfured dried apples, gold potatoes, yeast extract (yeast, salt (processing marker)), onion powder, barley malt extract, spices, garlic, cane sugar (processing marker), vinegar, sea salt (processing marker), yeast, rubbed sage, natural smoke flavor (ultra-processing marker)
As written on the pack
Filtered water, vital wheat gluten, safflower oil, unsulfured dried apples, yukon gold potatoes, yeast extract (yeast, salt), onion powder, barley malt extract, spices, garlic, cultured cane sugar, vinegar, sea salt, yeast, rubbed sage, natural smoke flavor.
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.
- 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.
- Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
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.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
Among 84 vegetarian sausages
From least to most processed, this one ranks 11th. 96% of the vegetarian sausages here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0638031612178, last edited 24 July 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 D (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.