Pork Sausage

Breakdown

Ultra-processed · 4 ingredients to avoid

Kroger Pork Sausage 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 12g protein and 2g 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.

Kroger Pork Sausage lists 14 ingredients, starting with Pork, Water, Salt, Sodium Lactate and Dextrose. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

200 kcal per serving, or 308 kcal per 100g. Calories are only part of the picture — Tallow scores Kroger Pork Sausage on what the ingredients are, not how many calories they carry.

At 5/100 Kroger Pork Sausage scores worse than most fresh meat we have scored. A higher-scoring option in fresh meat is Simply Nature Organic 100% Grass Fed Ground Beef 85% Lean 15% Fat at 100/100.