Applegate Nutri-Score D NOVA 3

Sweet Italian Chicken Sausage

Sweet Italian Chicken Sausage: 4/5 ingredient safety

Sweet Italian Chicken Sausage by Applegate has 1 tracked ingredient, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is D.

  • Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 3

Meats and their products / Meats / Prepared meats / Sausages

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 Sweet Italian Chicken 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 Sweet Italian Chicken Sausage sits nationally

Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients

4 Top 80% higher than 20% 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

4
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 4 out of 5
Based on 1 tracked ingredient
1
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
1
Low Risk / Safe
D
Nutri-Score

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

3
NOVA Group 3
Processed foods

Processed foods are relatively simple products made by adding salt, oil, sugar, or other culinary ingredients to whole foods.

Full Ingredients List

Organic chicken**. contains less than 2% of the following: sea salt, organic vinegar, baking soda, organic spices, organic fennel, organic garlic.

Product Details

Barcode
0025317322003
Nutri-Score
Grade D
NOVA Group
3 — Processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Sweet Italian Chicken Sausage rank on ingredient safety?

With an average ingredient safety score of 4/5, Sweet Italian Chicken Sausage sits behind 80% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What's behind the 4/5 rating on Sweet Italian Chicken 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 4/5 average places Sweet Italian Chicken Sausage in the Low Risk 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.