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Is Garant Vego middagskorv ultra-processed?

300 g Vegetarian sausages Sold in Sweden and Norway

Pack of Garant Vego middagskorv

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:

  • 26 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed vegetarian 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

Rehydrerad äggvita 70%, rapsolja, vatten, salt, kryddor (vitlök, palsternacka, lök, koriander, inge, fära, spiskummin, muskot, citrusolja), e415, e407a, e410, druvsocker från majs, e262, kryddextrakt (musko, svartpeppar, chili), e172, Ägg från frigående höns, Förpackat i en skyddande atmosfär

Additives: E172 Iron oxides and iron hydroxides , E262 Sodium acetates , E407a Processed eucheuma seaweed , E410 Locust bean gum , E415 Xanthan gum

As written on the pack

Rehydrerad äggvita (70%), rapsolja, vatten, salt, kryddor (vitlök, palsternacka, lök, koriander, inge - fära, spiskummin, muskot, citrusolja), förtjockningsmedel (E415, E407a, E410), druvsocker från majs, surhetsreglerande medel (E262), kryddextrakt (musko, svartpeppar, chili), färgämne (E172). Ägg från frigående höns. Ursprung äggvita: Tyskland. Förpackat i en skyddande atmosfär.

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.
  • E407a Processed eucheuma seaweed 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.
  • E410 Locust bean gum Locust bean gum (carob gum) is a thickener and stabiliser from the seeds of the carob tree.
  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.

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.
1 ingredient 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 84 vegetarian sausages

From least to most processed, this one ranks 47th. 96% of the vegetarian 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 84 vegetarian sausages, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7340083485541, last edited 3 October 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.