Is Mighty Spark Chicken Snack Sticks ultra-processed?

4 oz Sausages Sold in the United States

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Salt
Sugar

11 ingredients
1 additive
Nutri-Score E

Less processed meats and their products

Organic Ground Beef Kirkland Signature 1 ingredient · no additives NOVA group 1
100% Grass-Fed Beef Patties Kirkland 1 ingredient · no additives NOVA group 1
organic tempeh Lightlife 5 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 1
Mushroom Risotto Veggie Burgers Dr. Praeger's Sensible Foods 18 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 1

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

chicken, water, sugar (processing marker), sea salt (processing marker), less than 2% rice flour, encapsulated citric acid, celery powder, sea salt (processing marker), black peppercorn, cherry, colored beef collagen casing

Additives: E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

chicken, water, sugar, sea salt, less than 2% rice flour, encapsulated citric acid, cultured celery powder, sea salt, smoked black peppercorn, cherry powder, colored beef collagen casing

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 337 sausages

From least to most processed, this one ranks 37th. 80% of the 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 337 sausages, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0854147008944, last edited 7 July 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.