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Is Fry’s Meat Free 8 Original Hot Dogs ultra-processed?

1 box, 360g Vegan sausages Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Fry’s Meat Free 8 Original Hot Dogs

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:

  • 18 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed vegan products

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

Vegetable Protein 23% (SOY, wheat), Vegetable Oil (Coconut Kernel), Potato Starch, Flavourings (mustard, Onion, Savoury Flavour, celery), Maize Starch, Sea Salt, Thickener (Guar Gum), Colourant (Paprika, Red Iron Oxide)

Additives: E172 Iron oxides and iron hydroxides , E172ii Red iron oxide , E412 Guar gum

As written on the pack

Vegetable Protein (23%) (SOY, WHEAT (GLUTEN)), Vegetable Oil (Coconut Kernel), Potato Starch, Flavourings (MUSTARD, Onion, Savoury Flavour, CELERY), Maize Starch, Sea Salt, Thickener (Guar Gum), Colourant: Paprika and Red Iron Oxide. Contains: SOY, WHEAT, CELERY, MUSTARD, GLUTEN.

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.

  • E172 Iron oxides and iron hydroxides Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 18 vegan sausages

From least to most processed, this one ranks 3rd. 100% of the vegan 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 18 vegan sausages, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 6005207001007, last edited 27 March 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.