What's In Our Sausages & Deli Meats and More Importantly What's NOT In Them

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We often list the number of things that are not in our sausages, deli meats bacon and hot dogs. This is a long list and it dawned on us this week that the fact that we have this extremally long list of everything that is Not in our sausages is not a good sign of what is in the vast majority of food that is in our supermarkets. These are filled with ultra processed foods and if we look specifically at the sausages and deli meats available in the grocery store these items are filled with proven unhealthy chemical preservatives, artificial food color and flavours and a myriad of other additives that have been modified or chemically altered.

These ultra processed meats are why we started making our own simple recipe sausages and deli in the first place. Our daughter had severe allergies to the chemicals and additives in the meat available and so when we could not find meat we could and wanted to eat we decided to make our own. Since 1998 this tradition of simple ingredients with no preservatives or fillers continues with every new product we make.

What’s IS in our sausages and deli meats?:

Our own organic and certified humane meat
organic spices,
plain unaltered sea salt,
when a recipe needs a bit of sweetness organic honey or maple syrup
For specific flavours, organic cranberries, organic canned tomatoes, and organic coconut aminos (instead of soy sauce in our teriyaki)

The long list below of what is Not in our sausages is concerning and why reading ingredients and asking questions about the food you eat is so important. When we first started looking into the ingredients of our food we carried a book around with us, a food ingredient dictionary, when we started making our own sausages our goal was to make food where you did not need to look up the ingredients to know what they were. We are extremely proud of the sausages we make and their short ingredient lists, we hope you and your family will also enjoy them knowing you are eating healthy, clean food that is simply made with your health and the health of the environment in mind.

What’s NOT in our sausages and deli meats?

No Nitrates or nitrites
No Sulfates or sulphites
No Phosphates
No Celery extract or any cultured plant extracts (another form of nitrates)
No Gluten and wheat (enriched flour, wheat gluten)
No Potato flakes, potato flour or potato starch
No Rice bran, rice flour, rice starch
No Soy, soy isolate, soy lecithin
No Cane Sugar or brown sugar
No High fructose corn syrup, or any fructose
No Cheese, Milk or whey
No Glucose Solids
No Corn Syrup
No Dextrose
No Ascorbic Acid
No Artificial smoke
No Modified or Buffered Vinegar
No MSG
No Bread crumbs
No Eggs, egg byproducts
No Modified Corn Starch
No Potassium lactate
No Sodium Diacetate
No Baking Soda
No Sodium Erythorbate
No Lactic acid
No Wine
No Potassiumpyrophosphate
No Potassium Chloride
No Modified Milk Ingredients
No Artificial Flavour
No Artificial Color
No Carrageenan
No Tetrapotassium Pyrophosphate
No Nuts
No Irradiated spices (irradiation does not have to be listed on ingredient lists if the irradiated ingredient makes up less then 10% of the final product according to Canadian labelling laws)
No GMO’s (do not have to be listed on ingredient lists according to Canadian labeling laws)
No Citric acid