UK Food Product Ingredients
Last reviewed: 8 May 2026
Back-of-pack ingredient breakdowns for popular UK products. We list every ingredient, explain the additives, and call out anything an allergy or sensitivity tracker would want to know.
What this page is for
This is the hub for our UK product ingredient breakdowns. Each card links to a full back-of-pack page: every ingredient in declaration order, every E-number named and explained, the headline nutrition figures, and the allergens listed by the manufacturer.
How we choose products: we start with the items UK shoppers ask about most often and the ones scanned heavily in the app. Staples like Weetabix and Warburtons sit alongside the curiosities (Pot Noodle, Peperami, Bisto) where the ingredient list is longer than people expect.
How to use the cards: each tag is a quick flag for something notable (a contained additive, a nutrient highlight, a meat or fruit percentage). Tap through for the full breakdown and our grade. Ingredients change between batches, so always cross-check the pack in front of you for allergens.
Richmond Sausages
A long-running UK economy banger. Pork content sits well below premium butcher's sausages, the rest is rusk, water and seasoning, and the preservative line typically lists nitrite-class additives plus sulphites that allergy trackers care about.
Peperami
A cured pork stick with a high meat percentage relative to size, but the salt-per-stick figure is high for the gram weight and the cure relies on sodium nitrite (E250), which is the additive flag most readers want surfaced.
Müller Corner
The split-pot yoghurt format puts a sweetened topping next to plain yoghurt, so the total sugar per pot is higher than the dairy side suggests on its own. We list the sugar by variant and call out the colourings used in the fruit and chocolate toppings.
Warburtons Toastie
A standard UK sliced white loaf with a longer back-of-pack than most people expect: emulsifiers (E471, E472e), a flour-treatment agent (E300 ascorbic acid is typical), and preservatives that extend shelf life. Fortified with the UK-mandated calcium, iron, niacin and thiamin.
Greggs Sausage Roll
A puff-pastry layer wrapped around a seasoned pork-and-rusk filling. The headline calorie figure is in the 320–330 kcal range per roll, the pork percentage is lower than the pastry size implies, and sulphite preservatives in the meat layer are the main allergen flag.
Birds Eye Fish Fingers
UK labelling rules mean a "fish finger" needs at least 60% fish; Birds Eye sit at or above that, with the rest being a wheat-based breadcrumb coating and a small additive set for colour and stability. MSC certification is highlighted on-pack.
Bisto Gravy Granules
Instant gravy is mostly wheat starch, salt, vegetable fat and flavourings, with E621 (monosodium glutamate) as a flavour enhancer and E150c (ammonia caramel) for colour. The salt-per-serving on the made-up gravy is the figure most people miss.
Kinder Bueno
A milk-chocolate-and-hazelnut-cream wafer with sugar as the first ingredient and palm and hazelnut fats close behind, so the calorie density per stick is high relative to size. E322 (lecithin, usually soya) is the standard emulsifier and the soya itself is the allergen flag.
Lucozade Energy
Originally a UK pharmacy "recovery" drink, reformulated in 2017 to roughly halve sugar in response to the soft drinks levy, with E950 (acesulfame K) and aspartame added alongside the remaining glucose syrup. Caffeine content and E160a colour are listed on the full breakdown.
Pot Noodle
Dehydrated wheat noodles plus a flavour sachet that does most of the heavy lifting: salt, E621 monosodium glutamate, E635 disodium ribonucleotides, E150c caramel colour and a long list of flavourings. The "let stand four minutes" pot is iconic; the salt-per-pot figure is the one most readers underestimate.
Walkers Crisps
For a packaged snack the back-of-pack is unusually short: potatoes, sunflower oil (or rapeseed depending on line) and a seasoning blend that varies by flavour. Salt content shifts noticeably between flavours, which is the figure worth checking against UK daily salt guidance.
Weetabix
A UK breakfast staple with a back-of-pack most ingredient lists on this hub envy: wholegrain wheat at the top, malted barley extract, salt and a fortification blend (iron, niacin, riboflavin, thiamin, folic acid, B6, B12). Sugar per biscuit is low; what tops it usually isn't.
About these ingredient breakdowns
We analyse popular UK food products so the back-of-pack stops being a wall of small print. Each breakdown includes:
- Full ingredient lists in declaration order, exactly as printed on the pack
- Additive explanations for every E-number: what it does, why the manufacturer uses it, and any flag the published evidence carries
- Nutrition information per 100g and per typical UK serving (calories, macros, salt, saturates)
- Allergen warnings as listed by the manufacturer, with the standard 14 UK allergens highlighted
- Our grade and the headline reasoning behind it
Our approach. We describe what's in the product, factually. We don't tell you to put it back on the shelf, and we don't pretend a long ingredient list always means a worse food. Some long lists are fortification, some are texture, some are colour, some are preservation; the breakdown explains which is which so you can decide. Where published science flags a specific additive, we say so plainly and link the source.
Disclaimer. Ingredients change between batches and product lines, and recipe reformulations are common. Always check the pack in front of you, especially for allergens and additives you avoid. We are not affiliated with any brand featured here.
What we don't do
We don't tell you to avoid any product on this hub. We're not a regulator or a dietitian. We show the back of the pack at full readable size, explain the additives, and trust you to make your own call. The decision is yours; our job is making sure the information you decide with isn't hidden in 6pt type.
To look up an additive on its own rather than via a product, our wider E-numbers database covers each E-number individually. For specific sensitivities we run trackers for sulphites, lactose and gluten.
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