Chorizo ring
Chorizo ring by Sainsburys has 3 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.3 out of 5, 0.82 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.
- Safety score 0.82 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
How This Score Is Built
This 1-5 scale is an editorially-derived index, not an official government rating -- it synthesizes FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research. For Chorizo ring, 3 of its 3 tracked ingredients carry a scored rating so far, current as of 2026-09-07.
Data draws on Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records -- cross-check with the FDA → directly, or read how we score it.
Where Chorizo ring sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3.3 Top 93% higher than 7% of 58,710 scored products
Average ingredient safety score (1 = highest risk, 5 = safest), bucketed by value
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Source PlainIngredients ingredient safety index · 2026-09-07
- Potassium Nitrate - Safety score: 2/5
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Full Ingredients List
Pork, Paprika (2.5%) (Paprika, Smoked Paprika), Salt, Garlic, Preservatives: Sodium Nitrite, Potassium Nitrate; Extracts of Rosemary.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Chorizo ring: nearest mean mapped additive safety score and nearest mapped ingredient count among indexable products with at least 3 scored additives, excluding same-brand siblings. Scores describe regulatory and research signals on additives, not dietary advice.
Similar mean additive safety
Nearest products by average mapped safety score. This record: 3.3/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 3.
Product Details
- Brand
- Sainsburys
- Barcode
- 0004638414437
- Available In
- United States
- Stores
- Sainsbury's
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Frequently asked questions
How does Chorizo ring's safety score compare to other products?
Chorizo ring scores 3.3 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 93% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.82 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Chorizo ring's 3.3/5 score be read?
PlainIngredients scores each ingredient 1 (highest risk) to 5 (safest) from FDA and EU regulatory status, then averages the scores of every ingredient this product lists that we could map. A 3.3/5 average places Chorizo ring in the Mixed Evidence tier.
Every figure on PlainIngredients is rendered directly from FDA, EU, EFSA and U.S. state regulatory records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.