Is veggie hot dogs ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 29 ingredients
- 5 additives
- Nutri-Score D
Less processed vegetarian sausages
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
hot dogs (water), sunflower oil 13% modified starch, barn egg protein powder 5.2% rice flour, inulin (ultra-processing marker), thickeners (ultra-processing marker) (methyl cellulose (ultra-processing marker), xanthan gum (ultra-processing marker), sodium alginate (ultra-processing marker)), spices, flavouring into sugar, tomato paste, salt (processing marker), hydrolysed maize protein, yeast extract, maltodextrin (ultra-processing marker), acidifier (citric acid), antioxidant (sodium ascorbate), penly smoke flavouring, spice extracts, colour (ultra-processing marker) (iron codes and hydroxides), be and 01 utes brine (water), salt (processing marker), smoke flavouring (ultra-processing marker), bl hot dogs
Additives: E14XX Modified Starch , E330 Citric acid , E401 Sodium alginate , E415 Xanthan gum , E461 Methyl cellulose
As written on the pack
hot dogs: water, sunflower oil 13% modified starch, barn egg protein powder 5.2% rice flour, inulin, thickeners (methyl cellulose, xanthan gum, sodium alginate), spices, flavouring into sugar, concentrated tomato paste, salt, hydrolysed maize protein, yeast extract, maltodextrin, acidifier (citric acid), antioxidant (sodium ascorbate) penly smoke flavouring, spice extracts, colour (iron codes and hydroxides). be and 01 utes brine: water, salt, smoke flavouring. bl hot dogs
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.
- E14xx Modified Starch Modified starches (E1400 to E1452) are starches treated physically, with enzymes or chemically so that they thicken and hold up to heating, freezing or acidity better than ordinary starch.
- 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.
- E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
- E461 Methyl cellulose Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.
- Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
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- Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
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.
- Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
- Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
1 ingredient that would only make it processed
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.
Among 84 vegetarian sausages
From least to most processed, this one ranks 73rd. 96% of the vegetarian sausages here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5010431601795, 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 D (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.