Is Sainsbury’s taste the difference Taste the Difference 6 Outdoor Bred British Pork Sausages ultra-processed?

Sausages Sold in the United Kingdom

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Dextrose
Glucose

20 ingredients
2 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

british pork 97%, salt (processing marker), rice flour, gram flour, onion, white pepper, sage, nutrmeg, preservative (processing marker) (sodium metabisulphite), coriander, antioxidant (ascorbic acid), maize starch (processing marker), stabiliser, disodium siphosphate, ginger, chilli, cloves, dextrose (ultra-processing marker)

Additives: E223 Sodium metabisulphite , E300 Ascorbic acid

As written on the pack

british pork (97%), salt, rice flour, gram flour, onion powder, white pepper, sage, nutrmeg, preservative: sodium metabisulphite (sulphites): coriander, antioxidant: ascorbic acid; maize starch, stabiliser, disodium siphosphate, ginger, chilli powder, cloves, dextrose.

What makes it ultra-processed

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.

5 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 337 sausages

From least to most processed, this one ranks 146th. 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 01167351, last edited 26 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.