Hot Links Sausage Made with Chicken & Pork

Breakdown

Ultra-processed · 5 ingredients to avoid

Hot Links Sausage Made with Chicken & Pork scores 5/100 on Tallow — our avoid band. That number comes from what is on the label: the ingredients, how processed it is, and what it is packaged in. Per serving it carries 0g fiber, 11g protein and 3g sugar. It is not a verdict on your diet — Tallow does not weigh calories, portion size or how often you eat it, so a high score means the ingredients are clean, not that the food is unlimited.

Hot Links Sausage Made with Chicken & Pork lists 19 ingredients, starting with Mechanically Separated Chicken, Pork, Pork Hearts, Water and Dextrose. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

220 kcal per serving, or 262 kcal per 100g. Calories are only part of the picture — Tallow scores Hot Links Sausage Made with Chicken & Pork on what the ingredients are, not how many calories they carry.

At 5/100 Hot Links Sausage Made with Chicken & Pork scores worse than most deli & cured meats we have scored. A higher-scoring option in deli & cured meats is Dietz & Watson Originals Organic Roasted Turkey Breast at 100/100.