Overview
- Nutrition commentator Sunna van Kampen, known as TonicHealth, posted a TikTok highlighting the ingredient breakdown of Greggs' sausage roll and said it contains about 22% pork.
- Tesco’s packaged label for the product lists pork at 20% and details stabilisers, emulsifiers and a preservative such as sodium metabisulphite.
- Greggs’ website describes the item as seasoned sausage meat in puff pastry, presenting a contrast with the full ingredient list seen on retail packaging.
- Reaction online was sharply divided, with some users saying they will stop buying the rolls and others insisting they will keep eating them.
- Outlets report they have asked Greggs for comment with no substantive response reported, noting the chain runs more than 2,600 UK shops and says over one million people eat its sausage rolls daily.