Hearty Meat Marinara
Hearty Meat Marinara by Marie Callender's has 3 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is C.
- Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Meals / Pasta dishes
How This Score Is Built
This 1-5 scale is an editorially-derived index, not an official government rating -- it synthesizes FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research. For Hearty Meat Marinara, 3 of its 3 tracked ingredients carry a scored rating so far, current as of 2026-09-07.
Data draws on Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records -- cross-check with the FDA → directly, or read how we score it.
Where Hearty Meat Marinara sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4 Top 80% higher than 20% of 58,710 scored products
Average ingredient safety score (1 = highest risk, 5 = safest), bucketed by value
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Source PlainIngredients ingredient safety index · 2026-09-07
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
Ultra-processed products are formulations made mostly or entirely from substances derived from foods and additives. They typically contain ingredients not commonly used in home cooking.
Full Ingredients List
Cooked pasta (water, enriched durum wheat semolina, vegetable oil, dried egg whites), Water, Tomato paste, Pizza mozzarella cheese (skim milk, salt, bacterial culture, enzymes), Cooked meatballs (beef, water, soy protein isolate, ricotta whey cheese, dried whole eggs, romano cheese, brown sugar, salt, potassium chloride, wheat flour, garlic powder, onion powder, rosemary extract, green tea extract, spices, herb), Cooked Italian sausage (pork, water, salt, corn syrup, dextrose, spices, spice extract), Carrots, Celery, Garlic, Onions, Salt, Sugar, Modified corn starch, Disodium inosinate, Disodium guanylate, Seasoning, Herbs, Spice.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Hearty Meat Marinara: nearest mean mapped additive safety score and nearest mapped ingredient count among indexable products with at least 3 scored additives, excluding same-brand siblings. Scores describe regulatory and research signals on additives, not dietary advice.
Similar mean additive safety
Nearest products by average mapped safety score. This record: 4/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 3.
Product Details
- Brand
- Marie Callender's
- Barcode
- 0031000003999
- Nutri-Score
- Grade C
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- Canada,United States
- Stores
- Thrifty Foods
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Hearty Meat Marinara rank on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Hearty Meat Marinara's 4/5 average puts it in the lower 80%, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Hearty Meat Marinara's 4/5 score be read?
PlainIngredients scores each ingredient 1 (highest risk) to 5 (safest) from FDA and EU regulatory status, then averages the scores of every ingredient this product lists that we could map. A 4/5 average places Hearty Meat Marinara in the Low Risk tier.
Every figure on PlainIngredients is rendered directly from FDA, EU, EFSA and U.S. state regulatory records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.