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Is The Deli Frankfurters ultra-processed?

350 g Frankfurter sausages Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of The Deli Frankfurters

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:

  • 18 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed meats and their products

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 75%, water, potato starch, salt, spice extracts, sablser (sodium), sugar, celery, garlic extract, antioxidant (ascorbic acid), preservative (sodium nitrite), dried onion, dried lovage, parsnip, leek

Additives: E250 Sodium nitrite , E300 Ascorbic acid

As written on the pack

pork (75%), water, potato starch, salt, spice extracts, sablser: sodium : sugar, celery extract, garlic extract, antioxidant ascorbic acid, preservative: sodium nitrite, dried onion, dried lovage, dried parsnip, dried leek,

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

Preservation and traditional processing

Keep food safe or ferment it, like preservatives and cultures. A sign of processing, not ultra-processing.

  • 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.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.

Category rules

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

  • Prepared meats Products in the category "Prepared meats" are at least group 3.
  • Sausages Products in the category "Sausages" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 8 frankfurter sausages

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2nd. 75% of the frankfurter 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 8 frankfurter sausages, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600040073, last edited 17 April 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.