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Is Trader Joe's Apple Chardonnay Chicken Sausage ultra-processed?

12 oz Chicken sausages Sold in the United States

Pack of Trader Joe's Apple Chardonnay Chicken Sausage

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Open Food Facts counts every product in its category, prepared meats, as at least group 3.

  • 12 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed chicken and its products

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

chicken, apples, contains less than 2% of salt, onion, celery juice, white pepper, nutmeg, thyme, ginger, chardonnay, rosemary, in a natural pork casing

As written on the pack

CHICKEN, DEHYDRATED APPLES, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF SALT, ROASTED ONION, CELERY JUICE POWDER, WHITE PEPPER, NUTMEG, THYME, GINGER, CHARDONNAY, ROSEMARY, IN A NATURAL PORK CASING.

What makes it processed

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 30 chicken sausages

From least to most processed, this one ranks 7th. 70% of the chicken 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 30 chicken sausages, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00988575, last edited 29 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.