Is Marks & Spencer Italian Style 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:
- 21 ingredients
- 2 additives
- Nutri-Score D
Less processed sausages
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
enriched wheat flour (flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), whole wheat flour, sunflower oil (processing marker), sugar (processing marker), wheat germ, corn starch (processing marker), invert sugar syrup (ultra-processing marker), salt (processing marker), malt extract, onion powder, torula yeast, sodium bicarbonate, monocalcium phosphate, annatto color and turmeric oleoresin (color (ultra-processing marker))
Additives: E341 Calcium phosphates , E341i Monocalcium phosphate
As written on the pack
enriched wheat flour (flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), whole wheat flour, sunflower oil, sugar, wheat germ, corn starch, invert sugar syrup, salt, malt extract, onion powder, torula yeast, sodium bicarbonate, monocalcium phosphate, annatto color and turmeric oleoresin (color),
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.
- Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
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.
- Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
7 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.
- 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.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
- Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.
Among 337 sausages
From least to most processed, this one ranks 148th. 80% of the sausages here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00923774, last edited 31 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.