Figures from Greggs UK nutrition guide, September 2026 , collected by Boone
Sausage Breakfast Roll, as published. Calorie split calculated by Boone. How
The Sausage Breakfast Roll as published, seen four ways.
0 of 3 limits are over 30% in one breakfast item, the UK front-of-pack mark for high.
Nothing here passes 30% of an adult’s daily limits in one breakfast item.
Lower saltSimply Creamy Porridge →0.11g salt (2%), 249 kcalNHS limits by age: salt goes from 30% for an adult to 60% at age 4 to 6.
For age 4 to 6, salt is the bigger share: 1.8g is 60% of the day’s 3g limit in one breakfast item.
Lower-salt swapSimply Creamy Porridge →0.11g salt, 4% of the 3g limitFor age 7 to 10, salt is the bigger share: 1.8g is 36% of the day’s 5g limit in one breakfast item.
Lower-salt swapSimply Creamy Porridge →0.11g salt, 2% of the 5g limitFor age 11 to 17, salt is the bigger share: 1.8g is 30% of the day’s 6g limit in one breakfast item.
Lower-salt swapSimply Creamy Porridge →0.11g salt, 2% of the 6g limitProtein counts in your favour here, but the saturated fat is still 26% of the adult limit.
17g of protein, #65 on the menu. Per calorie the Free Range Egg Pot gives more: 9.4g per 100 kcal against 4.5g.
Most protein per calorieFree Range Egg Pot →12g protein in 127 kcalHere the 720mg of sodium counts as useful after sweaty exercise.
42g of carbohydrate, with 36% of the energy from fat.
Natural sugars in milk, fruit and veg don’t count. NHS →
For smaller portions: the most nutrition per calorie, against all 213 Greggs items.
More protein per calorie than 63% of the 213 items on the menu.
More fibre per calorie than 55% of the 213 items on the menu.
Greggs does not publish vitamins or minerals for this item, so Boone does not estimate them.
The 2018 model indicates this breakfast item is less healthy: it scores 13, above the line of 4.
Higher is less healthy; 4 or more would be classed as less healthy under this model. How the score works →
Joint #139 of 203 on the menu for this score (lower is better).
UK Nutrient Profiling Model 2018 →UK law does not require one for food made to order or sold loose, so Boone cannot count the ingredients or list the additives. Allergens are listed above, as published by Greggs. Recipes change, so check in the restaurant if you have an allergy.
Omelette Breakfast Roll 19g protein, 1.3g salt352
Bacon & Omelette Breakfast Roll 22g protein, 1.9g salt363
Lorne Breakfast Roll 17g protein, 2g salt369
Peach Melba 2.6g protein, 0.13g salt369
Sausage Breakfast Roll 17g protein, 1.8g salt377
Sausage & Omelette Breakfast Roll 20g protein, 1.8g salt395
Bacon & Sausage Breakfast Roll 22g protein, 2.4g salt405
Omelette Breakfast Baguette 21g protein, 1.6g salt441377 kcal as published. 377 kcal is 19% of a 2,000 kcal adult reference intake.
For a child aged 4 to 6 it is 60% of the day’s 3g salt limit and 31% of the 19g free sugar limit in one item. A Simply Creamy Porridge has 0.11g of salt, 4% of that salt limit.
5.9g of total sugar as published. Boone estimates 5.9g of it is free sugar: 1.5 teaspoons and 20% of an adult’s 30g daily maximum.
17g, 4.5g per 100 kcal. It ranks #65 of 212 items on the menu for protein. The Free Range Egg Pot gives the most protein for the calories, 9.4g per 100 kcal.
13 on the UK Nutrient Profiling Model 2018, calculated by Boone per 100g. Scores run from -20 to 40, and the higher the score, the less healthy the model rates the food. Foods scoring 4 or more would be classed as less healthy under this model.
As published, wheat, soya and sulphites. Rye, barley, oats, spelt and kamut may be present.
Source. Greggs UK nutrition guide, September 2026 , per item as sold.
Collected. Copied by Boone from Greggs’s published figures. Data checks are led by Murray Dare.
Calculated by Boone. Labelled where it appears.
Limits. NHS free sugar and salt limits by age; UK reference intakes for adults.
