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Is Sainsbury's Sausage rolls ultra-processed?

60g Friands Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsbury's Sausage rolls

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:

  • 25 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), British Pork 27%, Water, Palm Oil, Potato Starch, Onion, Wheat Flour, Salt, Rapeseed Oil, Skimmed Cows' Milk Powder, Black Pepper, Sugar, Nutmeg, Yeast Extract, Parsley, Mace, Onion Powder, White Pepper, Garlic Powder, including cereals containing gluten

As written on the pack

Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, ; Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), British Pork (27%), Water, Palm Oil, Potato Starch, Onion, Wheat Flour, Salt, Rapeseed Oil, Skimmed Cows' Milk Powder, Black Pepper, Sugar, Nutmeg, Yeast Extract, Parsley, Mace, Onion Powder, White Pepper, Garlic Powder. Allergy advice: For allergens, including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients in bold.

What makes it processed

Processed ingredients

Processed foods in their own right, such as cheese or milk powder.

  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

Category rules

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

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

How the NOVA groups work

Among 13 friands

From least to most processed, this one ranks 5th. 31% of the friands 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 13 friands, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00101813, last edited 24 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.