Is Great Value Traditional Pasta Sauce ultra-processed?

680 g Pasta sauces Sold in the United States and Mexico

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Salt
Sugar
Vegetable oil

12 ingredients
1 additive
Nutri-Score A

Less processed pasta sauces

Steel Cut Oats Quick Millville 1 ingredient · no additives NOVA group 1
Low Sodium Marinara Michaels of Brooklyn 7 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 1
Arrabbiata Sauce Michaels of Brooklyn 7 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 1
Mr Ridiculously Good's Smooth Tomato Bolognese Heinz 15 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 1

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Tomato puree (water, tomato paste), diced tomatoes in tomato juice, sugar (processing marker), contains less than 2% of (soybean oil (processing marker)), salt (processing marker), garlic, dehydrated onion, spices, citric acid

Additives: E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Tomato puree (water, tomato paste), diced tomatoes in tomato juice, sugar, contains less than 2% of: soybean oil, salt, dehydrated garlic, dehydrated onion, spices, citric acid.

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.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 317 pasta sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 114th. 49% of the pasta sauces here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 317 pasta sauces, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0078742000206, last edited 17 April 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 A (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.