Sainsbury’s’s own-label products in the Boone database, by category. Each one is checked against the UK daily guidelines for whoever is eating.
Each category opens the full comparison, with Sainsbury’s picked out.
Every bowl compared, with ten rankings: healthiest, least sugar, most protein and more.
Indian Ready Meals52 productsLightest: Indian Aloo Saag, 108 kcal
Compare with other brands →Vegetables31 productsLightest: Stonebaked Thin Ham, Mushroom & Garlic Spinach Pizza, 111 kcal
Compare with other brands →Italian Ready Meals25 productsLightest: Bolognese Pasta Sauce, 36 kcal
Compare with other brands →Pies & Pub Classics23 productsLightest: Be Good to Yourself Cottage Pie, 249 kcal
Compare with other brands →Cheese23 productsLightest: Cheese & Tomato Pizza, 170 kcal
Compare with other brands →Chinese & Asian Ready Meals21 productsLightest: Vegetable Chow Mein, 121 kcal
Compare with other brands →Beef14 productsLightest: Roast Beef Dinner, Be Good to Yourself, 312 kcal
Compare with other brands →Pizza13 productsLightest: Stonebaked Thin Vegetable Antipasti Pizza, 104 kcal
Compare with other brands →Mexican & Tex-Mex Ready Meals11 productsLightest: Black Beans Carton, SO Organic, 105 kcal
Compare with other brands →Sainsbury’s British Fillet of Beef Wellington with a Rich Mushroom Duxelles, Taste the Difference, with 1,215 kcal per one pack. The lowest is Sainsbury’s Salad Cream, at 26 kcal.
Sainsbury’s Slow Cooked Harissa Lamb Tagine with Pomegranate Glaze, Taste the Difference, with 51.6g of sugar per one pack. That is 172% of the 30g daily free sugar limit for anyone aged 11 or over, and 272% of the 19g limit for a 4 to 6 year old.
The NHS limits free sugar to 30g a day from age 11, 24g for ages 7 to 10 and 19g for ages 4 to 6. Free sugar is added sugar plus sugar in honey, syrups and juice, not the sugar in milk or whole fruit.
They follow UK front-of-pack labels. Sugar is high above 22.5g per 100g (11.25g per 100ml for drinks), saturated fat above 5g (2.5g), and salt above 1.5g (0.75g). Low is 5g, 1.5g and 0.3g per 100g or less.
Figures are per serving as sold, from the nutrition information published by each brand or retailer, checked by Boone. Where a product page gives figures per 100g, the serving uses the pack or portion size shown on that page.
Colours follow the UK front-of-pack labelling thresholds per 100g or 100ml. Daily references are the NHS free sugar and salt limits by age and the energy references used across Boone. Sugar is free sugar where Boone has worked it out from the ingredients, and total sugar otherwise, marked as such.
Own-label products sold by Sainsbury’s, matched by the Sainsbury’s name on the product. Branded products sold in Sainsbury’s are under Brands.
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