Group · Meat
Cocktail sausages
The cocktail sausage is a small cooked sausage, sold in jars or vacuum packs, served with drinks and often wrapped in puff pastry. It is the format that causes the problem, more than the product: nobody ever counts how many they eat.
In terms of nutrition facts: 290 kcal per 100 g, with 25.9 g of fat including 9.59 g of saturated fat, and 12.7 g of protein. It provides 305 mg of potassium per 100 g, and contains 2.1 g of salt.
Macronutrient breakdown
Nutrition table per 100 g
| Calories | 290 kcal |
| Kilojoules | 1200 kJ |
| Protein | 12,7 g |
| Carbohydrate | 1,5 g |
| Fat | 25,9 g |
| Fibre | 0,3 g |
Micronutrients per 100 g
All measured nutrients, ranked by share of the daily reference intake.
- Vitamin B120,8 µg32 %
- Omega-6 LA2,71 g27 %
- Vitamin B10,2 mg18 %
- Phosphorus112 mg16 %
- Potassium305 mg15 %
- Vitamin B32,43 mg15 %
- Vitamin B924,2 µg12 %
- Omega-3 ALA0,23 g12 %
See the other 11 nutrients
- Zinc1,1 mg11 %
- Vitamin C8,8 mg11 %
- Vitamin B20,14 mg10 %
- Vitamin B60,13 mg9 %
- Selenium5 µg9 %
- Iodine10,5 µg7 %
- Magnesium20 mg5 %
- Vitamin B50,3 mg5 %
- Iron0,65 mg5 %
- Calcium31,6 mg4 %
- Vitamin E0,1 mg1 %
Anses Ciqual 2025. Source: Anses, 2025, Ciqual food composition table
Tips
A cocktail sausage weighs 10 g: count 29 kcal. The problem is that you take ten without thinking: 290 kcal and 2.1 g of salt, or 42% of the daily guideline, with drinks.
Puff pastry doubles the bill. A sausage roll weighs about 25 g in total, and the pastry provides more calories than the sausage itself. It is the worst ratio on the drinks table.
25.9 g of fat for 12.7 g of protein. Fine mincing requires a fatty emulsion, as with Strasbourg sausage.
It counts towards the charcuterie guideline. 150 g a week, across all products, according to the Programme National Nutrition Santé (PNNS, the French national nutrition programme).
Serve them in a small bowl, not from the jar. This is the only tip that works on this product: a visible portion can be counted, an open jar cannot.