Sausage, Egg & Cheese Biscuit Sandwiches, Sausage

How it compares with other frozen breakfast sandwiches, biscuits and meals

Per 100 g, it has more sugar than 68% of the 892 frozen breakfast sandwiches, biscuits and meals products in USDA's branded database, and it has more sodium than 82% of them.

Where the calories come from: 26% carbohydrate, 62% fat and 12% protein (4 calories a gram of protein or carbohydrate, 9 of fat).

Other sausage in this aisle

431 of the 892 frozen breakfast sandwiches, biscuits and meals products are named sausage. Per 100 g their median is 254 calories, 544 mg of sodium and 9.5 g of protein; 329 have less sodium than this one.

What is in it

Ingredients (as submitted): BUTTERMILK BISCUIT: WATER, ENRICHED BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR (CONTAINS BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN AND FOLIC ACID), BLEACHED, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (CONTAINS WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN AND FOLIC ACID), PALM OIL, DRIED BUTTERMILK, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS: SOY FIBER, SUGAR, LEAVENING (SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE), SODIUM BICARBONATE, DEXTROSE, SALT, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL BUTTER FLAVOR [NATURAL BUTTER FLAVOR {MALTODEXTRIN, ENZYME MODIFIED BUTTER [BUTTER (CREAM, SALT), ENZYMES], ANNATTO EXTRACT (COLOR), TURMERIC EXTRACT (COLOR)}, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, LACTIC ACID], POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE), DATEM, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL SAUTEED BUTTER TYPE FLAVOR [MALTODEXTRIN, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, ANNATTO EXTRACT (COLOR), TURMERIC EXTRACT (COLOR)], XANTHAN GUM. FULLY COOKED PORK AND CHICKEN SAUSAGE PATTY: PORK, MECHANICALLY SEPARATED CHICKEN, WATER, SOY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS: SALT, PORK STOCK, SPICES, DEXTROSE, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, SUGAR, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, CITRIC ACID, FLAVOR, CARAMEL COLOR. FULLY COOKED EGG PATTY: WHOLE EGGS, NONFAT MILK, SOYBEAN OIL, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, SALT, XANTHAN GUM, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL BUTTER FLAVOR (SOYBEAN OIL, BUTTER, LIPOLYZED BUTTER OIL, AND NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS), CITRIC ACID. PASTEURIZED PROCESS AMERICAN CHEESE: MILK, WATER, CREAM, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF CHEESE CULTURE, CITRIC ACID, COLOR ADDED, ENZYMES, POTASSIUM CITRATE, SALT, SODIUM CITRATE, SORBIC ACID (PRESERVATIVE), SOY LECITHIN, TETRASODIUM PYROPHOSPHATE.

The statement covers several recipes in one package, so its ingredients are not counted. Its own allergen line reads: "Contains WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN AND FOLIC ACID), PALM OIL, DRIED BUTTERMILK, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS: SOY FIBER, SUGAR, LEAVENING (SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE), SODIUM BICARBONATE, DEXTROSE, SALT, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL BUTTER FLAVOR [NATURAL BUTTER FLAVOR {MALTODEXTRIN, ENZYME MODIFIED BUTTER [BUTTER (CREAM, SALT), ENZYMES], ANNATTO EXTRACT (COLOR), TURMERIC EXTRACT (COLOR)}, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, LACTIC ACID], POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE), DATEM, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL SAUTEED BUTTER TYPE FLAVOR [MALTODEXTRIN, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, ANNATTO EXTRACT (COLOR), TURMERIC EXTRACT (COLOR)], XANTHAN GUM". For allergies, read the package: this is the record USDA holds (updated Feb 8, 2023), not the label on the shelf today.

Source: the ingredient statement The Hillshire Brands Company submitted to USDA (FoodData Central 2676152).

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