Is Heck Chicken 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:
- 26 ingredients
- 3 additives
- Nutri-Score B
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NOVA group
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
British Chicken 75%, Water, Pea Flour, Seasoning (Salt (processing marker), Rice Flour, Sugar (processing marker), Leek, Preservative (processing marker) (Sodium SULPHITE), Spice, Antioxidant (Ascorbic Acid), Natural Flavourings (ultra-processing marker), Acidity Regulator (Citric Acid), Yeast Extract, Flavouring (ultra-processing marker)), Oven Dried Tomato 2%, Basil 1%, Mozzarella Cheese (processing marker) 1% (Mozzarella Cheese, Anticaking Agent (processing marker) (Potato Starch (processing marker))), Garlic 0.6%, Citrus Fibre (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E221 Sodium sulphite , E300 Ascorbic acid , E330 Citric acid
As written on the pack
British Chicken (75%), Water, Pea Flour, Seasoning (Salt, Rice Flour, Sugar, Dried Leek, Preservative (Sodium SULPHITE), Spice, Antioxidant (Ascorbic Acid), Natural Flavourings, Acidity Regulator (Citric Acid), Yeast Extract, Flavouring), Oven Dried Tomato (2%), Basil (1%), Mozzarella Cheese (1%) (MILK) (Mozzarella Cheese, Anticaking Agent (Potato Starch)), Garlic (0.6%), Citrus Fibre.
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.
- 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.
8 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.
- Anti-caking agent Anti-caking agents are substances which reduce the tendency of individual particles of a foodstuff to adhere to one another.
- Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
- Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
Among 30 chicken sausages
From least to most processed, this one ranks 22nd. 70% of the chicken sausages here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060317352808, last edited 11 April 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 B (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.