Is Porky Lights Lower Fat Premium Pork 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:
- 33 ingredients
- 3 additives
- Nutri-Score D
Less processed sausages
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Pork 75%, water, breadcrumb (rice flour, potato starch (processing marker), tapioca starch (processing marker), dextrose (ultra-processing marker), yeast, sugar (processing marker), salt (processing marker), maize starch (processing marker), vegetable fibre (ultra-processing marker)), salt (processing marker), stabiliser (sodium tripolyphosphate (ultra-processing marker)), white pepper, preservative (processing marker) (sodium sulphite), sage, nutmeg, mace, coriander, cayenne chilli mix (paprika, cayenne), black pepper, yeast extract, parsley, marjoram, ground ginger, Filled in natural pork casings, Whilst every precaution has been taken to remove bones, some may remain
Additives: E221 Sodium sulphite , E452 Polyphosphates , E452vi Sodium tripolyphosphate
As written on the pack
Pork 75%, water, gluten free breadcrumb (rice flour, potato starch, tapioca starch, dextrose, yeast, sugar, salt, maize starch, vegetable fibre), salt, stabiliser sodium tripolyphosphate; white pepper, preservative: sodium sulphite: sage, ground nutmeg, ground mace, ground coriander, cayenne chilli mix (paprika, cayenne). ground black pepper, yeast extract, parsley, marjoram, ground ginger. Filled in natural pork casings. Whilst every precaution has been taken to remove bones, some may remain.
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.
- E452 Polyphosphates Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.
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.
- Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
- Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
- 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.
6 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.
- 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.
Among 337 sausages
From least to most processed, this one ranks 244th. 80% of the sausages here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060044510519, last edited 27 March 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.