Food · Columbus
Columbus Italian Dry Salame
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Weak nutrition · Ultra-processed · per 100 g
Weak nutrition and a factory recipe. Fine as a rare treat — not as a habit.
Worse than 9 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
2 high-concern extras
Sodium nitrite, Potassium nitrate
Extra care in pregnancy
Sodium nitrite
The pack
Weak nutrition and a factory recipe. Fine as a rare treat — not as a habit.
How often
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Who it’s for
Anyone comparing similar products in this aisle.
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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
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Nutrition box
Weak
How processed
Ultra-processed
Extras
2 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.
Avoid · 24/100 · nutrition weak
- Nutrition quality21/100
- Ingredients44/100
- How processed16/100
- Organic0/100
The extras on the list set the limit. A high-concern ingredient, or a cluster of them, blocks a better rating.
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
Two high-concern extras mean Avoid. We would leave this on the shelf.
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.
Potassium nitrate
-28Nitrate in cured meat. Same family as nitrites.
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 | 1550 kJ |
|---|---|
| Sugars | 1 gLow Naturally low in sugar. |
| Saturated fat | 10 gHigh |
| Salt | 2.2 gHigh Salty. Easy to overshoot a day’s worth if this is a habit. |
| Fibre | 0 g |
| Protein | 20 g |
Better neighbours
Same aisle, cleaner number. Ranked by how close the job is — not by who paid.
Ingredients
Pork, salt, dextrose, sodium nitrite, sodium nitrate, lactic acid starter culture, spice.
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
Potassium nitrateE252
−28Nitrate in cured meat. Same family as nitrites.
Pork
No concernA meat. The processing around it — nitrite, slurry — is the usual issue, not the animal itself.
Salt
No concernThe nutrition box already scores it. A pinch in cooking is not a packet of noodles.
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