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Is Porky Whites Traditional Premium Pork Sausages ultra-processed?

Sausages Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Porky Whites Traditional Premium Pork Sausages

Yes, it's ultra-processed

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

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 33 ingredients
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed sausages

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 82%, water, rusk (WHEAT flour (calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), salt, ammonium bicarbonates (process aid)), potato starch, salt, spices (white pepper, nutmeg, coriander, ginger), stabilise (sodium tripolyphosphate), sugar, preservative (sodium sulphites), yeast extract, dextrose, antioxidant (sodium ascorbate), spice extract (pepper, cayenne), Filled in pork collagen casings, Whilst every precaution has been taken to remove bones, some may remain

Additives: E221 Sodium sulphite , E301 Sodium ascorbate , E452 Polyphosphates , E452vi Sodium tripolyphosphate , E503 Ammonium carbonates , E503ii Ammonium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Pork 82%, water, rusk [WHEAT flour (calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), salt, ammonium bicarbonates (process aid)], potato starch, salt, spices (white pepper. nutmeg, coriander, ginger), stabilise: sodium tripolyphosphate, sugar, preservative: SODIUM SULPHITES, yeast extract, dextrose, antioxidant: sodium ascorbate, spice extract (pepper, cayenne). Filled in pork collagen 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.
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.
  • 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.
  • Bread An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 337 sausages

From least to most processed, this one ranks 225th. 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 5060044510021, last edited 18 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.