Kroger NOVA 3

Traditional Pasta Sauce

Traditional Pasta Sauce: 4.5/5 ingredient safety

Traditional Pasta Sauce by Kroger 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.

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

Condiments / Sauces / Pasta sauces

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 Traditional Pasta 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 Traditional Pasta 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
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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), DICED TOMATOES IN TOMATO JUICE, SOYBEAN OIL, SUGAR, SALT, DRIED ONIONS, CITRIC ACID, SPICES, DRIED GARLIC

Product Details

Brand
Kroger
Barcode
0011110134103
NOVA Group
3 — Processed foods
Available In
United States
Stores
Kroger

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Frequently asked questions

Is Traditional Pasta Sauce above or below average on ingredient safety?

Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Traditional Pasta 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 does a 4.5/5 ingredient safety score mean?

Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Traditional Pasta Sauce's 4.5/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it 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.