Bertolli Nutri-Score B NOVA 3

Rustic Cut Sweet Peppers Sauce

Rustic Cut Sweet Peppers Sauce: 4.5/5 ingredient safety

Rustic Cut Sweet Peppers Sauce by Bertolli has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.5 out of 5, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is B.

  • Safety score 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 3

Condiments / Sauces / Groceries

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 Rustic Cut Sweet Peppers Sauce, 2 of its 2 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 Rustic Cut Sweet Peppers Sauce sits nationally

Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients

4.5 Top 29% higher than 71% 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

4.5
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 4.5 out of 5
Based on 2 tracked ingredients
2
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
2
Low Risk / Safe
B
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

Tomatoes in juice (diced tomatoes, tomato juice, calcium chloride, citric acid), tomato puree (tomato paste, water), portobello mushrooms, red bell pepper, yellow bell pepper, onions, extra virgin olive oil, carrots, spices, garlic, celery, salt, citric acid.

Product Details

Barcode
0036200430774
Nutri-Score
Grade B
NOVA Group
3 — Processed foods
Available In
United States,World

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Frequently asked questions

How does Rustic Cut Sweet Peppers Sauce's safety score compare to other products?

Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Rustic Cut Sweet Peppers Sauce's 4.5/5 average puts it in the safer 71%, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What's behind the 4.5/5 rating on Rustic Cut Sweet Peppers Sauce?

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 4.5/5 average places Rustic Cut Sweet Peppers 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.