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Bratwurst-type sausage: what's actually in it?

The short answer: pork first, water second, and then a small tail of sugar, salt and preservatives or antioxidants — except for the fresh butcher-made bratwurst, which is pork, water, salt and spices and nothing else. "Bratwurst" is a style, not a fixed recipe: pork, pork-and-veal, beef and chicken versions all sit on the same shelf, and cheese, beer or jalapeño variants change the list completely.

This page does not give a health score or a ranking, and does not pick a "best" bratwurst. It shows the ingredient list as printed, flags meat type, fillers and allergens, and explains the jargon in plain English.

The headline, in 30 seconds

Johnsonville Original is pork, water, corn syrup — then under 2% pork broth, salt, dextrose, natural flavours, BHA, propyl gallate and citric acid. Corn syrup and dextrose are both added sugars, even though the front of pack says "100% premium pork".
Cheese, beer and jalapeño variants are different products. Cheddar adds a long processed-cheese list (milk allergen); beer adds beer as the second ingredient; jalapeño & cheddar adds both.
Evergood's smoked bratwurst is much shorter — pork, water, then 2% or less of salt, dextrose, spices, sodium phosphate, sodium nitrite and natural flavourings — but it does contain sodium nitrite, which Johnsonville Original does not.
The fresh Singapore-made bratwurst at Little Farms (Sidecar) is the cleanest list here: pork, water, salt, pepper, herbs, spices, garlic, pork casing — no sugar, no nitrite, no preservatives, per the Little Farms listing.
Pan Pacific's hotel butchery bratwurst is famous, not panelled. Pan Pacific Singapore sells pork bratwurst and veal bratwurst (pork + veal, herbs, Swiss spice blends, per press coverage), but no full verbatim ingredient list was found online, so it sits in seen-but-not-verified — do not assume it matches the Sidecar list.
Chicken bratwurst exists in Singapore supermarkets (Butcher's Reserve and Cut Butchery at FairPrice), but neither had a full ingredient section retrieved in this pass, so both are seen-but-not-verified.

At a glance

Product	Meat	First ingredients	Added sugar?	Notable flags	Pack size (as printed)	Country of manufacture (as printed)
Johnsonville Original Brats	Pork	Pork, water, corn syrup	Yes — corn syrup, dextrose	BHA, propyl gallate; no nitrates/nitrites (brand claim)	19 oz (538g)	USA
Johnsonville Cheddar Brats	Pork	Pork, processed cheddar cheese, water, corn syrup	Yes — corn syrup, dextrose	Milk allergen; BHA, propyl gallate	19 oz (538g)	USA
Johnsonville Beer Brats	Pork	Pork, beer, corn syrup	Yes — corn syrup, dextrose	Contains beer; BHA, propyl gallate	19 oz (538g)	USA
Johnsonville Jalapeño & Cheddar Brats	Pork	Pork, processed cheddar cheese, water, corn syrup	Yes — corn syrup, dextrose	Milk; jalapeño + green bell pepper	19 oz (538g)	USA
Johnsonville Smoked Brats (beef)	Beef	Beef, water	Yes — corn syrup, sugar	Sodium nitrite; MSG	14 oz	USA
Evergood Smoked Bratwurst	Pork	Pork, water	Yes — dextrose	Sodium nitrite; sodium phosphate	12 oz	USA
Evergood Bratwurst (pork & veal, traditional)	Pork + veal	Pork, veal (partial list)	Not stated in partial list	Partial list only — see panel	12 oz	USA
Sidecar Traditional German Bratwurst (Little Farms)	Pork	Pork, water, salt, pepper, herbs, spices, garlic	No	No preservatives/additives (listing claim); pork casing; gluten-free (listing claim)	500g	Singapore

Prices are deliberately not shown here: they change weekly and would go stale. This site compares ingredients only.

Panelled products

Johnsonville Original Brats (pork)

Pack size: 19 oz (538g) · Made in: USA (as printed)

Ingredients: Pork, water, corn syrup and less than 2% of the following: pork broth with natural flavorings, salt, dextrose, natural flavors, BHA, propyl gallate, citric acid. (Some US listings add dried vinegar in the under-2% group — see research notes.)

Brand statement: made with 100% premium pork; no artificial flavours or colours; no nitrates or nitrites. Sold in Singapore via FairPrice (Cooked Brats range, origin USA) and Amazon.sg. Meat: pork Added sugar: corn syrup, dextrose ⚠️ US pack list — verify SG pack before publish

Johnsonville Cheddar Brats (pork)

Pack size: 19 oz (538g) · Made in: USA (as printed)

Ingredients: Pork, pasteurized process cheddar cheese ([cheddar cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), water, milkfat, sodium phosphate, salt, fruit and vegetable juice color, paprika extract color, sorbic acid], natamycin), water, corn syrup, and less than 2% of the following: pork broth with natural flavorings, salt, dextrose, lemon juice powder (corn syrup solids, lemon juice solids, and natural flavors), natural flavors, dried vinegar, BHA, propyl gallate, citric acid. Contains milk.

The cheese is the second ingredient — this is not Original with a cheese flavouring. Meat: pork Allergen: milk ⚠️ US pack list — verify SG pack before publish

Johnsonville Beer Brats (pork)

Pack size: 19 oz (538g) · Made in: USA (as printed)

Ingredients: Pork, Beer, Corn Syrup and Less Than 2% of the Following: Water, Salt, Dextrose, Natural Flavors, BHA, Propyl Gallate, Citric Acid.

Beer is the second ingredient, ahead of corn syrup. Brand description: made with 100% premium pork; no artificial flavours or colours; no nitrates or nitrites. Meat: pork Contains beer ⚠️ US pack list — verify SG pack before publish

Johnsonville Jalapeño & Cheddar Brats (pork)

Pack size: 19 oz (538g) · Made in: USA (as printed)

Ingredients: Pork, pasteurized process cheddar cheese ([cheddar cheese (milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto), water, cream, enzyme modified cheese (milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, water, lipolyzed cream, sodium phosphate, xanthan gum), sodium phosphate, salt, sorbic acid, sodium citrate, apo-carotenal], powdered cellulose, natamycin), water, corn syrup and less than 2% of the following: salt, dehydrated jalapeno pepper, dehydrated green bell pepper, dextrose, spices, oleoresin capsicum, natural flavors, BHA, propyl gallate, citric acid.

Meat: pork Allergen: milk ⚠️ US pack list — verify SG pack before publish

Johnsonville Smoked Brats — beef variant

Pack size: 14 oz · Made in: USA (as printed)

Ingredients: Beef, water, contains 2% or less of the following: salt, corn syrup, sugar, sodium phosphate, monosodium glutamate, sodium erythorbate, potassium lactate, sodium nitrite, natural and artificial flavors, sodium diacetate, collagen casing.

Unlike the pork Original, this smoked beef version contains sodium nitrite and MSG, and two sweeteners (corn syrup + sugar). Included because beef bratwurst is a separate meat row, not a flavour of the pork product. Meat: beef ⚠️ US pack list — verify SG pack before publish

Evergood Smoked Bratwurst (pork)

Pack size: 12 oz · Made in: USA (as printed)

Ingredients: PORK, WATER. CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF SALT, DEXTROSE, SPICES, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM NITRITE, NATURAL FLAVORINGS.

Shorter than Johnsonville Original and no corn syrup, but it does contain sodium nitrite. A second source lists the same product as pork + beef — see research notes; the EWG LabelINSIGHT list above (pork only) is the panel used here, and the conflict must be resolved on the SG pack. Meat: pork (see conflict note) Added sugar: dextrose

Evergood Bratwurst — traditional pork & veal (partial list)

Pack size: 12 oz · Made in: USA (as printed)

Ingredients (as described in secondary source, incomplete): Pork, Veal, … — Evergood describes this as made in the traditional style with pork and veal and naturally smoked.

This panel is deliberately partial: the full list was not retrieved verbatim. Do not treat it as a complete list. Meat: pork + veal ⚠️ Partial — verify full list before publish

Sidecar Traditional German Bratwurst — Little Farms (Singapore-made, pork)

Pack size: 500g · Made in: Singapore (as printed)

Ingredients: Pork, water, salt, pepper, herbs, spices, garlic, pork casing.

Little Farms listing: "an all pork thicker-style sausage… balancing the pork flavour with fresh garlic, nutmeg and other secret European seasonings"; "Made right here in Singapore, all our products are gluten free, with no preservatives, artificial ingredients or extenders." No sugar, no nitrite and no filler (no milk powder, starch or soy) appear in this list. Meat: pork Channel: Little Farms No added sugar in list

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

Pan Pacific Singapore — Pork Bratwurst and Veal Bratwurst (Pacific Emporium / Pacific Marketplace butchery). Sold by weight at the hotel butchery; press coverage describes veal bratwurst as premium pork and veal with herbs and Swiss spice blends, and the range as no preservative, no artificial colours/flavours, no mechanically deboned meat. No full verbatim list found online. Needs an in-store / online-shop ingredient check.
Butcher's Reserve Chicken Bratwurst Sausage (FairPrice, 1 kg). Listed at FairPrice; no ingredient section retrieved in this pass.
Cut Butchery Chicken Bratwurst (FairPrice, 330 g). Listed at FairPrice; no ingredient section retrieved in this pass.
Willms Bratwurst Sausage (Amazon.sg, pack of 5 × 80 g, chilled). Listed for Singapore; no ingredient list retrieved.
Johnsonville Cooked Pork Sausage — Lemon & Pepper (FairPrice). FairPrice ingredient section gives only "Contains Pork" — not a full list. Do not panel from that.
Johnsonville Grillers Original Bratwurst Patties. US list exists (pork, water, corn syrup, lemon juice powder, BHA, propyl gallate, citric acid) but SG availability was not confirmed — patties are a different form, not a link variant.
Huber's Butchery pork bratwurst (Dempsey). Huber's makes sausages in-house including pork bratwurst (per press), but no verbatim list was found online.
Swiss Butchery bratwurst range (Singapore). Swiss Butchery sells ~80 sausage types including bratwurst, but no bratwurst-specific verbatim list was retrieved; other Swiss Butchery products on Shopee show short lists (meat, spices, brine, phosphates) — not transferable to bratwurst.
Giant / Sheng Siong / Cold Storage / Donki / Mustafa / Meidi-Ya / Le Petit Depot / RedMart bratwurst ranges. No bratwurst-specific product with a verified list was found on those channels in this pass beyond the FairPrice/Little Farms items above; Giant/Sheng Siong house sausage ranges need an in-store check.
Re-audit 5 Nov 2026 — new Amazon.sg listings (no ingredient list retrieved): Meat Co. Pork Bratwurst Sausages — Frozen; Willms Bockwurst Sausage, Willms Frankfurter Sausage, Willms Krakuer Sausage and Willms Truffle Bocwurst (related Willms chilled range, not bratwurst variants — do not assume they share a list); Johnsonville Beer Bratwurst Raw Sausage 538g — Frozen (raw/frozen form of the panelled Beer Brats — form differs, list not separately retrieved); Tatsumoto Pork Sausage, Arabiki 250g — Frozen (Japanese pork sausage, not labelled bratwurst).

Nutrition — what the numbers say

No per-100 g nutrition panel was retrieved for any panelled bratwurst in this pass, so every row below is per serving only, quoted exactly as printed, and not converted to per 100 g — the Basis column gives the serving size for each row, and rows with different serving sizes (82 g vs 85 g) are not directly comparable without that size in view. Salt = sodium × 2.5; sodium is shown as printed and the salt equivalent in brackets. Sugars are total sugars as printed, not added sugars. No Nutri-Grade is assigned, and no health score is given.

Product	Basis	Energy	Protein	Total fat	Saturated fat	Carbohydrate	Sugars	Sodium (salt equiv.)
Johnsonville Original Brats (pork)	Per serving: 1 grilled link (82 g), per serving, not per 100 g — US listings	260 kcal	14 g	21 g	8 g	2 g	1 g	660–680 mg (salt 1.65–1.70 g) — see conflict note
Johnsonville Cheddar Brats (pork)	Per serving: 1 grilled link (82 g), per serving, not per 100 g — US listings	260 kcal	14 g	21 g	8 g	3 g	1 g	700 mg (salt 1.75 g) — see conflict note
Johnsonville Beer Brats (pork)	Per serving: 1 grilled link (82 g), per serving, not per 100 g — US listings	260 kcal	14 g	21 g	8 g	2 g	1 g	680 mg (salt 1.70 g) — see conflict note
Johnsonville Jalapeño & Cheddar Brats (pork)	Per serving: 1 grilled link (82 g), per serving, not per 100 g — USDA branded entry matching the jalapeño ingredient list	250 kcal	14 g	21 g	8 g	2 g	1 g	580 mg (salt 1.45 g)
Evergood Smoked Bratwurst (pork)	Per serving: 85 g, per serving, not per 100 g — EWG LabelINSIGHT label	230 kcal	11 g	19 g	7 g	2 g	2 g	830 mg (salt 2.08 g)

Conflicts flagged, not silently resolved: Johnsonville Original sodium is 680 mg per 82 g link on ShopRite and 660 mg on Kroger/QFC listings; Beer Brats sodium is 680 mg on most US listings but 660 mg on Johnsonville's own page; Cheddar Brats sodium is 700 mg on USDA/Prospre entries, 710 mg on Johnsonville's own page, and 620 mg on a FatSecret entry — the table uses 700 mg and records the range here rather than picking one. Evergood Smoked also appears as a 92 g link at 200–210 kcal with sodium 820 mg, a different serving weight from the 85 g EWG row above, so the two must not be merged.

What the numbers say, as numbers only: per link/serving as printed, sugars are 1 g for all four Johnsonville rows and 2 g for Evergood Smoked (85 g serving); sodium is 580 mg (Jalapeño & Cheddar, 82 g), 660–680 mg (Original, 82 g), 680 mg (Beer, 82 g), 700 mg (Cheddar, 82 g, conflict range above) and 830 mg (Evergood Smoked, 85 g). Because the serving sizes differ, these are per-serving observations, not per-100 g comparisons.

Seen but not verified (nutrition) — do not panel until checked: Johnsonville Smoked Brats (beef variant); Evergood Bratwurst — traditional pork & veal (partial list); Sidecar Traditional German Bratwurst (Little Farms). No nutrition panel was retrieved for these in this pass. The pork smoked Johnsonville variant found in one source is deliberately not used for the beef smoked variant panelled here.

How to read a sausage ingredient list — the jargon, in plain English

Corn syrup / dextrose: Added sugars. Dextrose is glucose. A sausage can be "100% premium pork" (about the meat) and still contain added sugar.
BHA / propyl gallate: Antioxidants that slow fat going rancid. They are not preservatives against bacteria in the nitrite sense, and they are not flavours.
Sodium nitrite: A curing agent that gives cured/smoked sausage its colour and shelf life. Its presence is the main split between Johnsonville Original (no nitrite, per brand claim) and the smoked Evergood / smoked beef Johnsonville lists here.
Sodium phosphate / potassium lactate / sodium erythorbate / sodium diacetate: Processing aids: phosphate holds water (juiciness), lactate and diacetate slow spoilage, erythorbate helps curing colour. They appear in the under-2% tail, not as bulk fillers.
Collagen casing / pork casing / natural casing: What the sausage is stuffed into. Collagen casing is made from processed collagen; pork casing is cleaned pork intestine. It is listed as an ingredient in some US lists and not in others — absence from a list does not mean a skinless sausage.
Fillers: In this category the usual suspects are milk powder, starch, soy protein and rusk. None of the panelled bratwursts here lists a starch/soy filler as a main ingredient — but the processed-cheese lists do add milk solids, and any unseen chicken bratwurst could differ, which is why those are not panelled yet.
"Cooked" vs "fresh" vs "smoked": Cooked brats are pre-cooked and only need heating; fresh brats must be cooked through; smoked brats have been smoked (and usually cured with nitrite). The cooking state does not change the meat, but it usually changes the additive tail.

What this page is not

Not a health score, and not medical advice. Nitrite, BHA and MSG notes here describe what is in the list, not a safety verdict.
Not a taste test, and not a price comparison.
Not complete. Chicken bratwurst, Pan Pacific and Huber's/Swiss Butchery fresh bratwurst, and Giant/Sheng Siong ranges are not yet panelled, for the verification reasons given, not hidden.
Not a claim that US Johnsonville/Evergood lists match the Singapore pack. Those panels are flagged US-list and must be checked against the SG pack before any publish step.

Sources and method

Checked 5–6 November 2026, re-audited 5 November 2026 from Amazon.sg bratwurst/sausage search listings (Meat Co., Willms range, Johnsonville Beer Raw, Tatsumoto Arabiki) and FairPrice/ Eastern Harvest listings (Butcher's Reserve range — still no ingredient section). Re-audit added 0 panels and 4 new seen-but-not-verified groups; panelled total stays 8 products (1 partial). Residual gap: no ingredient list was retrievable for any chicken bratwurst, Willms, Meat Co., Pan Pacific, Huber's or Swiss Butchery bratwurst, and all Johnsonville/Evergood panels remain US lists pending SG pack checks. Not 100% complete. Original sources: NTUC FairPrice product/category pages; Little Farms product page for Sidecar Traditional German Bratwurst; Johnsonville US retail/LabelINSIGHT lists (Target, Kroger, EWG); Evergood EWG LabelINSIGHT and Evergood company descriptions; Pan Pacific / Pacific Emporium press and shop pages (descriptive only). Channels checked: FairPrice (incl. Online), Cold Storage, Giant, Sheng Siong, Don Don Donki, Mustafa, Meidi-Ya, Le Petit Depot, RedMart, Lazada, Shopee Singapore, Little Farms, Amazon.sg (for SG availability only). Nutrition addition, 5–6 November 2026: no per-100 g panel was retrieved, so all nutrition rows are per serving only, quoted exactly as printed and not converted; sugars shown are total sugars as printed, and salt = sodium × 2.5. Full per-fact source list, including nutrition sources, is in the accompanying research notes. Where a full pack list could not be verified, the page says so instead of filling the gap.