Ragú Nutri-Score C NOVA 3

Marinara Sauce

Marinara Sauce: 4/5 ingredient safety

Marinara Sauce by Ragú has 1 tracked ingredient, 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 3

Condiments / Sauces / Meal sauces / Tomato sauces / Tomato sauces with basil

How This Score Is Built

Marinara Sauce draws on FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research, combined into a single editorially-derived 1-5 scale (never an official government rating). 1 of its 1 tracked ingredient is scored so far; data as of 2026-09-07.

Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records feed this score. The FDA site → has the primary record; our methodology page explains the scoring.

Where Marinara Sauce 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

4
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 4 out of 5
Based on 1 tracked ingredient
1
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
1
Low Risk / Safe
C
Nutri-Score

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

3
NOVA Group 3
Processed foods

Processed foods are relatively simple products made by adding salt, oil, sugar, or other culinary ingredients to whole foods.

Full Ingredients List

Tomato puree (water, tomato paste), crushed tomatoes in puree (tomatoes, tomato puree), onion, olive oil, garlic, salt, basil, black pepper, oregano.

Product Details

Brand
Ragú
Barcode
0036200431733
Nutri-Score
Grade C
NOVA Group
3 — Processed foods
Available In
United States,World

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Frequently asked questions

How does Marinara Sauce's safety score compare to other products?

Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Marinara Sauce's 4/5 average puts it in the lower 80%, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What does a 4/5 ingredient safety score mean?

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 Marinara Sauce 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.