Is Great Value Marinara Pasta Sauce ultra-processed?
It's processed, but not ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Whole foods combined with:
- 9 ingredients
- 1 additive
- Nutri-Score C
Less processed pasta sauces
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Steel Cut Oats Quick
Millville
1 ingredient · no additives
NOVA group
1
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Low Sodium Marinara
Michaels of Brooklyn
7 ingredients · no additives
NOVA group
1
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Arrabbiata Sauce
Michaels of Brooklyn
7 ingredients · no additives
NOVA group
1
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Mr Ridiculously Good's Smooth Tomato Bolognese
Heinz
15 ingredients · no additives
NOVA group
1
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
tomato puree, water, tomato paste d tomatoes in tomato juice, canola oil, contains less than 1% (salt (processing marker)), dehydrated onion, dehydrated garlic citric acid, parsley
Additives: E330 Citric acid
As written on the pack
tomato puree (water, tomato paste d tomatoes in tomato juice, canola oil, contains less than 1%: salt, dehydrated onion, dehydrated garlic citric acid, dehydrated parsley,
What makes it processed
Culinary ingredients
Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
Among 317 pasta sauces
From least to most processed, this one ranks 104th. 49% of the pasta sauces here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0078742346342, last edited 3 May 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
- Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
- NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of C (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.