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Is marks and Spencer’s best ever Our best sausage roll ultra-processed?

2 sausage rolls 270g Pastries Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of marks and Spencer’s best ever Our best sausage roll

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:

  • 12 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed sweet snacks

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

British Pork 42% (with Wheatflour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Unsalted Butter, Onions Potatoes Pasteurised Egg Salt White Wine Vinegar Rapeseed Oil Ground Spices (Black Pepper White Pepper Nutmeg), Coriander, Parsy, Sage Dried Thyme Yeast Cracked Black Pepper

As written on the pack

British Pork (42%) Wheatflour contains Gluten (with Wheatflour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin) - Unsalted Butter (Milk) (11%) Onions Potatoes Pasteurised Egg Salt White Wine Vinegar Rapeseed Oil Ground Spices (Black Pepper White Pepper Nutmeg) Coriander - Parsy. Sage Dried Thyme Yeast Cracked Black Pepper

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.

Category rules

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

  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 205 pastries

From least to most processed, this one ranks 13th. 87% of the pastries 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 205 pastries, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 29081417, last edited 27 February 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.