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Is The Hungry Boar Loaded BBQ Sticklers ultra-processed?

Pork Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of The Hungry Boar Loaded BBQ Sticklers

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:

  • 48 ingredients
  • 10 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed pork

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

feed your instincts, pork sticklers with bbq 80 flavoured filling, nely minced, smoked, COOKED and DRIED PORK SAUSAGE WITH BBQ FLAVOURED FILLING IN AN EDIBLE CASING, redients (Pork Meat), Plum Jam ums, Sugar, Tomate Concentrate, otato Starch, Sugar, Sa Sunflower Oil, Vinegar, Spices, Spice Extracts, Flavourings (including Smoke Flavouring), Maple Syrup, mustard (Water, Spirit Vinegar, MUSTARD Seeds, Sugar, Salt, Spices, Turmeric Extract, Natural Flavouring), SOYA Sauce (Water, soyabeans, wheat, Salt), Flavour Enhancer (Monosodium Glutamate), Stabiliser (Sunflower Lecithin), Antioxidants (Sodium Ascorbate, Sodium Erythorbate), Preservative (Sodium Nitrite), Edible Casing (Gelling Agent (Sodium Alginate), Stabilisers (Cellulose, Calcium Chloride))

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E250 Sodium nitrite , E301 Sodium ascorbate , E316 Sodium erythorbate , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E401 Sodium alginate , E460 Cellulose , E509 Calcium chloride , E621 Monosodium glutamate

As written on the pack

FEED YOUR INSTINCTS - PORK STICKLERS WITH BBQ 80 FLAVOURED FILLING. NELY MINCED, SMOKED, COOKED AND DRIED PORK SAUSAGE WITH BBQ FLAVOURED FILLING IN AN EDIBLE CASING. Prepared with 117g of pork and 8g of barbecue flavoured filling per 100g of finished product. redients: Pork Meat, Plum Jam ums, Sugar), Tomate Concentrate. otato Starch, Sugar, Sa Sunflower Oil, Vinegar, Spices, Spice Extracts, Flavourings (including Smoke Flavouring), Maple Syrup, MUSTARD (Water, Spirit Vinegar, MUSTARD Seeds, Sugar, Salt, Spices, Turmeric Extract, Natural Flavouring), SOYA Sauce (Water, SOYABEANS, WHEAT, Salt), Flavour Enhancer (Monosodium Glutamate), Stabiliser (Sunflower Lecithin), Antioxidants (Sodium Ascorbate, Sodium Erythorbate). Preservative (Sodium Nitrite). Edible Casing [Gelling Agent (Sodium Alginate), Stabilisers (Cellulose, Calcium Chloride)].

What makes it ultra-processed

Cosmetic additives

Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • E100 Curcumin Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.
  • E401 Sodium alginate A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
  • E460 Cellulose A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
  • E621 Monosodium glutamate Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is the sodium salt of glutamic acid, made by fermentation and used to strengthen savoury taste.
  • Flavour enhancer Flavour enhancers such as monosodium glutamate (E621) strengthen savoury taste without adding a flavour of their own.
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  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Gelling agent Gelling agents such as pectin, gelatine or carrageenan set liquids into gels and stabilise textures.
6 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.
  • Maple syrup An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 201 pork

From least to most processed, this one ranks 197th. 49% of the pork 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 201 pork, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060188693642, last edited 27 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.