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Is Simms Snack Sticks Turkey Sausage ultra-processed?

8 oz Turkey sausages Sold in the United States

Pack of Simms Snack Sticks Turkey Sausage

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:

  • 13 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed turkey 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

turkey, mechaically separatet urkey, cuntains 2% and less of (salt), corn syruplids, spices, dextrose, lactic acid starter culture, sarrageenan, sodium erythorbate, garlic powder, sodium nitrite, in collagen casing

Additives: E250 Sodium nitrite , E316 Sodium erythorbate

As written on the pack

turkey, mechaically separatet urkey, cuntains 2% or less of: salt, corn syruplids, spices, dextrose, lactic acid starter culture, sarrageenan, sodium erythorbate, garlic powder, sodium nitrite, in collagen casing, gluten free

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.
4 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.

  • E250 Sodium nitrite Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
  • Prepared meats Products in the category "Prepared meats" are at least group 3.
  • Sausages Products in the category "Sausages" are at least group 3.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 13 turkey sausages

From least to most processed, this one ranks 9th. 69% of the turkey 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 13 turkey sausages, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4099100154856, last edited 1 September 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.