Hot Link Sausage
Hot Link Sausage by Smokey Denmark's has 1 tracked ingredient, with an overall safety score of 2 out of 5, 2.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is C, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.
- Safety score 2.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 3
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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 Hot Link Sausage, 1 of its 1 tracked ingredient carries 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 Hot Link Sausage sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
2 Top 100% in the bottom 1% 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
- Sodium Nitrite - Safety score: 2/5
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
Processed foods are relatively simple products made by adding salt, oil, sugar, or other culinary ingredients to whole foods.
Full Ingredients List
BEEF HEARTS, BEEF TONGUE TRIMMING, PORK, WATER, BEEF, CEREAL (BARLEY FLOUR, CORN FLOUR), SPICES, SALT, GARLIC POWDER, SODIUM NITRITE.
Product Details
- Brand
- Smokey Denmark's
- Barcode
- 0037491101176
- Nutri-Score
- Grade C
- NOVA Group
- 3 — Processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Hot Link Sausage rank on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Hot Link Sausage's 2/5 average puts it in the lower 100%, 2.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 2/5 rating on Hot Link Sausage?
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 2/5 average places Hot Link Sausage in the Caution 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.