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Is Lidl Caramelised Onion Pork Sausages ultra-processed?

400 g Pork sausages Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Lidl Caramelised Onion Pork Sausages

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

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

Whole foods combined with:

  • 27 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed meats and their 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

pork 85%, onion 4% (brown sugar, red onion, red wine, onion, water, white wine vinegar), water, onion, fortified wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, thiamin, niacin), salt, sugar, onion powder, white pepper, dried sage, chives, black pepper, sodium metabisulphite, yeast, ascorbic acid, pork casings

Additives: E223 Sodium metabisulphite

As written on the pack

pork 85%, caramelised onion 4% (brown sugar, red onion, red wine ( sulphites ), onion, water, white wine vinegar ( sulphites )), water, onion, fortified wheat flour ( wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, thiamin, niacin), salt, sugar, onion powder, white pepper, dried sage, dried chives, black pepper, sodium metabisulphite, yeast, ascorbic acid, pork casings

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Prepared meats Products in the category "Prepared meats" are at least group 3.
  • Sausages Products in the category "Sausages" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 55 pork sausages

From least to most processed, this one ranks 5th. 89% of the pork 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 55 pork sausages, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20674540, last edited 30 August 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.