Is Sainsbury's taste the difference 2 Scotch Eggs with outdoor bred pork ultra-processed?

Eggs Sold in the United Kingdom

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Salt

18 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score D

Less processed eggs

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 Outdoor Bred Pork 55%, Hard Boiled Free Range Whole Egg 32%, Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Onion, Rapeseed Oil, Malted Wheat Flakes, Sea Salt (processing marker), Sage, Yeast, Nutmeg, Black Pepper, White Pepper, Salt (processing marker)

As written on the pack

British Outdoor Bred Pork (55%), Hard Boiled Free Range Whole Egg (32%), Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Onion, Rapeseed Oil, Malted Wheat Flakes, Sea Salt, Sage, Yeast, Nutmeg, Black Pepper, White Pepper, Salt.

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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 165 eggs

From least to most processed, this one ranks 146th. 10% of the eggs 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 165 eggs, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00423168, last edited 5 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.