Food · Oscar Mayer
Oscar Mayer Bologna
2092000000232
Weak nutrition · Ultra-processed · per 100 g
Weak nutrition and a factory recipe. Fine as a rare treat — not as a habit.
Worse than 8 in 10 packs in Meat & deli. The swap is on this aisle.
Council note
Sodium nitrite is a high-concern extra. That is enough to keep this off an everyday list — and we would not pack it for a child.
Watch-outs
High-concern extra
Sodium nitrite
Extra care in pregnancy
Sodium nitrite
Artificial colour
Allura red AC
The pack
Weak nutrition and a factory recipe. Fine as a rare treat — not as a habit.
How often
Rarely
Who it’s for
Anyone comparing similar products in this aisle.
Skip if
It clashes with the notes you keep in your profile — allergens, diet, or extras you asked us to flag.
- A weak nutrition box cannot be rated Good
- Ultra-processed food cannot be rated Good
- A high-concern extra blocks a Good rating
At a glance
How often
Rarely
Nutrition box
Weak
How processed
Ultra-processed
Extras
3 additives
Planet
Heavier footprint · 24/100
Organic
Not organic
Built in a factory with additives, flavours, or refined extras. Cannot be rated Good — a rare treat, not a habit.
Palm oil, heavy processing, or farming choices that cost more than they give back.
No shelf price logged yet. When a shopper posts a receipt to Open Prices, it lands here.
Why this number
Weak nutrition and a factory recipe. Fine as a rare treat — not as a habit.
Poor · 28/100 · nutrition weak
- Nutrition quality23/100
- Ingredients53/100
- How processed16/100
- Organic0/100
What pulled it down
A weak nutrition box cannot be rated Good
Sugars, salt or saturated fat dominate this box. Poor at best — a treat, not a habit.
Ultra-processed food cannot be rated Good
A factory recipe — flavours, colours, or many additives — cannot be rated Good. A sometimes treat, not a daily habit.
A high-concern extra blocks a Good rating
A cluster of extras keeps this at Poor: a sometimes product, not a habit.
Two red lights on the box cannot be rated Good
Two red lights on salt, sugar or saturated fat keep this at Poor, not Good.
A weak nutrition box
Sugars are modest. Salt is high. Fat is high. Sugars, salt or saturated fat dominate.
Ultra-processed
Built in a factory with additives, flavours, or refined extras. A growing pile of research ties a diet of these to poorer health — not because one biscuit is poison, but because the pattern crowds out real food.
Sodium nitrite
-28Forms nitrosamines (IARC Group 1 in processed meat). Used to cure meat.
Monosodium glutamate
-5Flavour enhancer. Safe for most; a subset reports sensitivity.
Allura red AC
-14Widely used azo dye. Hyperactivity concern in children.
Nutrition is half the number. Ingredients a quarter. How processed a fifth. Organic is a small bonus — it cannot rescue a sugary drink or a nitrite ham. How this compares to Nutri-Score
Nutrition · per 100 g
| Energy | 1290 kJ |
|---|---|
| Sugars | 4 gLow Naturally low in sugar. |
| Saturated fat | 8 gHigh |
| Salt | 2.1 gHigh Salty. Easy to overshoot a day’s worth if this is a habit. |
| Fibre | 0 g |
| Protein | 10 g |
Better neighbours
Same aisle, cleaner number. Ranked by how close the job is — not by who paid.
Ingredients
Mechanically separated chicken, pork, corn syrup, salt, sodium nitrite, MSG, red 40, flavour.
Sodium nitriteE250
−28Processed meats with nitrite are the ones to eat rarely — the concern is bowel cancer in that pattern, not one sandwich.
Extra care in pregnancy · Extra care for children
Allura red ACE129
−14Widely used, often flagged for children. You can live without red cereal.
Extra care for children
Monosodium glutamateE621
−5Safe for most. A few people report a reaction; most do not.
Pork
No concernA meat. The processing around it — nitrite, slurry — is the usual issue, not the animal itself.
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