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Sausage on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Sausage is a kind of meat. It is made to a recipe, so its allergens depend on the recipe. It is not vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 783 products, most often in ready meals. Per 100 g: about 281 kcal and 17 g protein.

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Does sausage contain an allergen?

It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link sausage to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.

Is sausage vegan?

No. Sausage is not vegan: it comes from an animal. It is not vegetarian either.

VeganNot for youNot vegan: it comes from an animal.
VegetarianNot for youIt comes from meat or another slaughter product.

A pack can differ from the usual recipe: the app reads the label in your hand.

What other names does sausage have on a label?

In English sausage can also read “sausages”. On European labels it is “Wurst” in German, “salsiccia” in Italian and “worstjes” in Dutch. The other 2 languages are listed below.

In Englishsausages
German
Wurst, Würstchen
Italian
salsiccia
Dutch
worstjes
Polish
kiełbasa, kiełbasy
Croatian
kobasica

Which foods contain sausage?

Open Food Facts lists sausage or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 783 products, most often ready meals, pizzas, pies and quiches and meat. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and the United Kingdom.

  • Ready meals244
  • Pizzas, pies and quiches222
  • Meat31
  • Processed meat31
  • Dressings and sauces26
  • Pasta, rice and flour22

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 487 · France 199 · United Kingdom 24 · Italy 18.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where sausage turns up, not how much of the market it is.

How many calories are in sausage?

Sausage has about 281 kcal per 100 g, with 17 g protein, 0.9 g carbohydrate and 23 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Sausage -average-” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.

281kcal per 100 g
17g protein
0.9g carbohydrate
23g fat

Also per 100 g: sugars 0.7 g, saturated fat 9.4 g, fibre 0.3 g, salt 2.05 g, energy 1,170 kJ.

ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 30780. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.

What kind of ingredient is sausage?

Sausage is a kind of meat.

Kinds of sausageMerguez

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Sources

An allergen is stated only when two of three checks agree: the Open Food Facts record, Bravoora’s label checker, and the ingredient’s own name or family (oat flour is oats, a cheese is milk). Every name where they disagree waits for a person to review it.

  1. Open Food Facts: Sausage
  2. Open Food Facts: ingredients taxonomy (names, family tree, allergen and vegan flags), ODbL
  3. Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
  4. ANSES: CIQUAL French food composition table (CALNUT 2020 edition), Licence Ouverte 2.0

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