Tomato Sauce

How it scored 82 / 100

Nutrition snapshot

Ingredients 10 listed

• 1 Tomato Purée
  Concentrated cooked tomato product with skin and seeds removed.
  Safe
• 2 Citric Acid
  Citric acid (E330), a weak organic acid naturally present in citrus fruit and produced commercially via Aspergillus niger fermentation.
  Low
• 3 Onion
  The edible bulb of Allium cepa L., a widely cultivated vegetable in the Allium family that also includes garlic, shallots, and leeks.
  Safe
• 4 Garlic
  Allium sativum, a bulbous plant whose cloves are rich in organosulfur compounds — most notably allicin (formed when garlic is crushed) — plu…
  Safe
• 5 Bell Pepper
  The fruit of Capsicum annuum cultivars lacking pungency (no capsaicin), eaten as a vegetable.
  Safe
• 6 Spice
  A regulatory category (21 CFR 101.22) for aromatic vegetable substances used primarily for seasoning. Excludes onion, garlic, and celery, wh…
  Moderate
• 7 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
• 8 Water
  Water intended for human consumption; the most common ingredient in processed foods and beverages. Bottled water is regulated as a food unde…
  Safe
• 9 Tomato Concentrate
  Concentrated tomato product made by removing water from tomato juice/pulp; includes paste and puree.
  Safe
• 10 Sea Salt
  Sodium chloride (NaCl) obtained by evaporating seawater. Chemically identical to mined/refined salt, with trace minerals depending on source…
  Low