Tomato & Basil Sauce

How it scored 75 / 100

Nutrition snapshot

Ingredients 17 listed

• 1 Tomato
  Fruit of the Solanum lycopersicum plant.
  Safe
• 2 Tomato Purée
  Concentrated cooked tomato product with skin and seeds removed.
  Safe
• 3 Basil
  Aromatic herb of the species Ocimum basilicum, used fresh or dried.
  Safe
• 4 Sugar
  Sucrose, a disaccharide of glucose and fructose, refined from sugarcane or sugar beets.
  Moderate
• 5 Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  Cold-pressed first-extraction olive oil with low free acidity (<0.8%).
  Safe
• 6 Onion
  The edible bulb of Allium cepa L., a widely cultivated vegetable in the Allium family that also includes garlic, shallots, and leeks.
  Safe
• 7 Salt
  Sodium chloride (NaCl), a crystalline mineral compound composed of roughly 40% sodium and 60% chloride by mass.
  Low
• 8 Garlic
  Allium sativum, a bulbous plant whose cloves are rich in organosulfur compounds — most notably allicin (formed when garlic is crushed) — plu…
  Safe
• 9 Spice
  A regulatory category (21 CFR 101.22) for aromatic vegetable substances used primarily for seasoning. Excludes onion, garlic, and celery, wh…
  Moderate
• 10 Citric Acid
  Citric acid (E330), a weak organic acid naturally present in citrus fruit and produced commercially via Aspergillus niger fermentation.
  Low
• 11 Natural Flavouring
  A regulatory umbrella term (21 CFR 101.22) for flavor extracts derived from spices, fruit, vegetable, herb, bark, root, leaf, meat, seafood,…
  Low
• 12 Soya Lecithin
  A naturally occurring mixture of phospholipids (phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol) extracted from soybean …
  Low
• 13 Juice
  Generic umbrella term for the liquid extracted from fruits or vegetables.
  Low
• 14 Calcium Chloride
  Calcium chloride (E509) is an inorganic salt of calcium and chlorine.
  Low
• 15 Water
  Water intended for human consumption; the most common ingredient in processed foods and beverages. Bottled water is regulated as a food unde…
  Safe
• 16 Tomato Concentrate
  Concentrated tomato product made by removing water from tomato juice/pulp; includes paste and puree.
  Safe
• 17 Firming Agent
  Functional class of additives that maintain or restore tissue firmness in fruits and vegetables (e.g., calcium chloride, calcium lactate, ca…
  Low