Smoked Apple & Sage Plant-Based Sausages

How it scored 55 / 100

Nutrition snapshot

Ingredients 17 listed

• 1 Filtered Water
  Water that has passed through a filtration process to remove impurities.
  Safe
• 2 Wheat Gluten
  Protein component of wheat (gliadin and glutenin), separated from starch.
  Low
• 3 Safflower Oil
  Edible oil pressed from safflower seeds (Carthamus tinctorius); high-linoleic or high-oleic variants.
  Safe
• 4 Dried Apple
  Apple slices or pieces (Malus domestica) with most of their water removed by drying.
  Safe
• 5 Gold Potatoes
  Yukon Gold or similar yellow-fleshed potato variety with thin gold skin.
  Safe
• 6 Yeast Extract
  Concentrate of soluble compounds from autolyzed Saccharomyces yeast cells; contains naturally occurring glutamates and nucleotides.
  Low
• 7 Onion
  The edible bulb of Allium cepa L., a widely cultivated vegetable in the Allium family that also includes garlic, shallots, and leeks.
  Safe
• 8 Barley Malt Extract
  Concentrated extract of malted barley (Dutch: gerstemoutextract); thick syrup made by mashing malted barley and concentrating the wort.
  Low
• 9 Spice
  A regulatory category (21 CFR 101.22) for aromatic vegetable substances used primarily for seasoning. Excludes onion, garlic, and celery, wh…
  Moderate
• 10 Garlic
  Allium sativum, a bulbous plant whose cloves are rich in organosulfur compounds — most notably allicin (formed when garlic is crushed) — plu…
  Safe
• 11 Cane Sugar
  Sucrose (a disaccharide of glucose and fructose) crystallized from sugar cane juice; chemically identical to beet sugar.
  Moderate
• 12 Vinegar
  Dilute aqueous solution of acetic acid produced by acetic-acid-bacteria fermentation of ethanol from fruit, grain, or other carbohydrate sou…
  Safe
• 13 Sea Salt
  Sodium chloride (NaCl) obtained by evaporating seawater. Chemically identical to mined/refined salt, with trace minerals depending on source…
  Low
• 14 Yeast
  Single-celled fungus, primarily Saccharomyces cerevisiae, used in fermentation and baking. A whole-food microorganism with millennia of food…
  Safe
• 15 Sage
  Dried leaves of Salvia officinalis L., a culinary herb in the mint family (Lamiaceae).
  Safe
• 16 Natural Smoke Flavouring
  Flavoring derived from condensing wood smoke (hardwood pyrolysis), then purifying to remove tar and most polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (P…
  Moderate
• 17 Salt
  Sodium chloride (NaCl), a crystalline mineral compound composed of roughly 40% sodium and 60% chloride by mass.
  Low