Low Calorie Sausages
Just because you’re on a diet, doesn’t mean you should miss out on yummy sausages. We’ve been scouring the supermarkets for low fat sausages so we can help you make your calories go further without sacrificing on flavour.
Sausages – Tried and Tasted
| Product | Waitrose, Half Fat Pork Sauages | Asda, GFY Pork Sausages | Sainsbury’s, 50% Less Fat Pork Sausage |
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| Ranking | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Appearance | Looks almost home made, brilliant | Great size and turned a lovely golden brown | Biggest of the bunch, with a great colour to it |
| Smell | Just right | Porky - yum | Appetising |
| Taste | Like a great pork sausage from the butchers, thumbs up all round! | Wouldn’t know it was low fat | Slightly herby after taste, but quite pleasant. |
| Texture | Normal | Normal | Normal |
| Summary | Our stand out favourite by a mile, and putting everyone but Sainsbury’s to shame. No one will even notice they are low calorie! | Just ahead of the Sainsbury’s sausages this was a hit. Plus you save over 20 calories from our top sausage with this option. | Highest in fat & calories, but still 50 calories lower than your average pork sausage so worth giving a try |
| Serving Size | 1 Grilled Sausage | 1 Grilled Sausage | 1 Grilled Sausage |
| Calories (kcal) per serving | 90 | 68 | 99 |
| Fat (g) per serving | 4.6 | 1.9 | 5.4 |
| Product | Sainsbury’s, BGTY Cumberland Sausages | Morrison’s, Eat Smart Pork Sausages | Morrison’s, Eat Smart Lincolnshire Sausages |
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| Ranking | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| Appearance | Anaemic looking compared to the others | Not good, slight green aura to it! | Very plastic and skin came away from sausage |
| Smell | Pleasant | Bland | Greasy bbq |
| Taste | Light and herby, with a spicy kick in there too | Like cheap pork sausages | Too sweet and tangy, yet like stuffing? |
| Texture | Falls apart | Too thick a skin, bit too chewy | Plastic skin, but soft inside |
| Summary | Surprisingly this was more like a veggie sausage, and although not wonderfully filling, tastes rather nice. If you like veggie sausages we think you’ll like this. | Lowest in calories & fat, and although not the best, not the worst either. Passable for use in casseroles etc | Again could be used in casseroles etc, but wouldn’t advise eating them on there own |
| Serving Size | 1 Grilled Sausage | 1 Grilled Sausage | 1 Grilled Sausage |
| Calories (kcal) per serving | 70 | 63 | 77 |
| Fat (g) per serving | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.5 |
| Product | Tesco, Light Choices Cumberland and Pork | Marks & Spencer, Extra Lean Pork Sausages | Tesco, Light Choices Pork Sausages |
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| Ranking | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| Appearance | Short and stubby in comparison to others | Plasticy | Some what dry and rather pale |
| Smell | Juicy pork | Like dog food | Herby |
| Taste | Spicy after taste and not as meaty as you’d think | Meaty. Not great. | Unimpressive dull flavour |
| Texture | Ok | Waxy | Grainy rather than meaty |
| Summary | Marginally better than the Tesco, Light Choices Pork variety, but just didn’t cut it | This one had a partial marmite effect. On the panel some liked, some loathed. However the majority was not in favour and so an acquired taste we think. | Very disappointing all round, and we suggest you give it a miss |
| Serving Size | 1 Grilled Sausage | 1 Grilled Sausage | 1 Grilled Sausage |
| Calories (kcal) per serving | 72.5 | 65 | 82.5 |
| Fat (g) per serving | 1.8 | 1.7 | 2.5 |
| Product | Weight Watchers Apple & Pork Sausages |
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| Ranking | 10 |
| Appearance | Pale, unappetising and gooey where cooked |
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| Taste | “Like pork flavoured bread pudding – in a bad way!” |
| Texture | Rubbery |
| Summary | Huge disappointment from a brand that is supposed to specialise in low cal/fat foods. Stay away! |
| Serving Size | 1 Grilled Sausage |
| Calories (kcal) per serving | 78 |
| Fat (g) per serving | 1.4 |
Conclusion
A very varied bunch of results from this tasting, with clear winners and losers. Waitrose, Half Fat sausages were by far our favourite, with Asda, GFY coming up close behind and the best option calorie wise.
Our advice would be to stay away from the low fat offerings from Tesco and Weight Watchers, while any of the others could be used and all add up to a considerable saving of over 50 calories per sausage compared to their full fat counterparts.
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