What Is Really In Your Sausages? How to choose quality over quantity

What Is Really In Your Sausages? How to choose quality over quantity

In Nigeria today, sausages are no longer reserved for hotel breakfasts, they are becoming a staple at homes, lunchboxes , shawarma, cafes, even local fast food menus. Which further raises the question

What is really inside the sausage I’m eating?

First let’s establish this hard fact:
Not all sausages are created equal Your friendly neighborhood store got lots of sausages but ever checked if they contain any real meat ? Meat can easily be obscured with fillers, preservatives and carbs, meaning much quantity but zero nutritional or very low nutritional value.

  • Mechanically separated meat ( scraps and bone residue)
  • Excess starches and soy
  • Artificial flavors and colorings
  • High level of salt and nitrites
  • Meat content as low as 20-30%

What if you know how to spot quality sausage when shopping??

Here’s what to do:

  • - Mechanically separated meat ( scraps and bone residue)
  • - Excess starches and soy
  • - Artificial flavors and colorings
  • - High level of salt and nitrites
  • - Meat content as low as 20-30%