Hot Dog Sausages: Calories, Nutrition & Healthier Swaps

Frankfurters are processed meat with added salt and fat, and they carry less protein than the same weight of plain meat.

Hot Dog Sausages nutrition facts per 100 g and per serving

Values per 100 g as eaten, averaged from food composition tables (USDA FoodData Central and others) and rounded — a specific brand or recipe will differ a little.

Hot Dog Sausages: what's in it

Nutritionally it's mainly a source of energy: 266 kcal per 100 g, 133 kcal per serving.

On the open Nutri-Score algorithm, hot dog sausages gets an E: more of a sometimes food than an everyday one. The score weighs calories, sugar, saturated fat and salt against protein, fiber and the share of fruit, vegetables, legumes and nuts.

What to watch

• High in saturated fat: 9 g per 100 g, against a daily reference of about 20 g.
• High in salt: 2.1 g per 100 g, while the WHO suggests no more than 5 g of salt a day in total.

How much movement is one serving?

One serving (one, 50 g) is 133 kcal — roughly 43 min of easy walking or 17 min of cycling for a 70 kg (154 lb) person. In the diary, minutes are worked out for your weight and the activities you actually do.

Healthier swaps for Hot Dog Sausages

Swaps are picked the same way the app does it: from the same kind of food, with a serving matched to the same calories (±25%), and only when the swap is clearly better — not “salad instead of pizza”.

• Chicken breast, raw — 120 g, 136 kcal: −3.9 g saturated fat, −0.8 g salt.
• Grilled turkey breast — 100 g, 135 kcal: −4 g saturated fat, −0.7 g salt.
• Chicken Breast — 100 g, 137 kcal: −4 g saturated fat, −0.8 g salt.
• Chicken gizzards, braised — 90 g, 135 kcal: −3.9 g saturated fat, −0.6 g salt.