Sausages and processed meat

Yenzo has checked 9 products in this group, from GO!, Le Gourmet, CP and 4 other brands; on a Vietnamese pack the group is called “xúc xích, thịt chế biến”. The ingredient list and the nutrition table of each product come from its own label — 6 from label photos checked by Yenzo and 3 from the open database Open Food Facts — and every product is rated with the same open formula the Yenzo app uses. Product names are given as printed on the pack, in Vietnamese, with a short English description in brackets.

On the Yenzo scale, 2 are rated “Sometimes”, 6 “Moderate” and 1 “Good”. Across these 9 products, the thing that most often pulls the rating down is salt (8 of 9 products), followed by additives at a moderate or high level (7) and ultra-processing (6). The ratings compare sausages and processed meat with each other by the same rules — which rank higher within the group — not whether to eat them. Each product's page lists the reasons behind its level, figure by figure, with the threshold each figure is measured against.