Is it ultra-processed?
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Pizza sauces, from least to most processed

We track 14 pizza sauces, 50% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Casa Visco, Italian Style Pizza Sauce.

What makes pizza sauces ultra-processed

The signs of ultra-processing found most often, and the share of pizza sauces that contain each:

Unprocessed or minimally processed (1)

  1. 1 Casa Visco, Italian Style Pizza Sauce Casa Visco Finer Foods 1

Processed food (6)

  1. 2 Pizza Sauce Loyd Grossman 3
  2. 3 Pizza Sauce Gucina Matese 3
  3. 4 Pizza Rao's Homemade · 12.3 oz 3
  4. 5 Pizza Arrabbiata Rao's Homemade · 349 g 3
  5. 6 Classic Pizza Sauce Heinz · 400g 3
  6. 7 Pizza Topper Tesco · 200gr 3

Ultra-processed food (7)

  1. 8 Pizza Homemade Style Sauce Ragú · 63 g 4
  2. 9 Pizza Sauce Dei Fratelli 4
  3. 10 Pizza Sauce Great Value · 213 ml 4
  4. 11 Tomato & Basil Sainsbury's 4
  5. 12 Sauce à pizza Gattuso · 398ml 4
  6. 13 Pizzakit ICA · 600g 4
  7. 14 Pizza Dipping Sauce Garlic & Herb Pizza Express · 255g 4

Within each group, products with fewer signs of ultra-processing, additives and ingredients come first. This ordering is ours, for comparison; it is not part of NOVA.