Signature Select Nutri-Score A NOVA 1

Unsweetened Apple Sauce

Unsweetened Apple Sauce: 4/5 ingredient safety

Unsweetened Apple Sauce by Signature Select 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 A.

  • Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 1

Plant-based foods and beverages / Plant-based foods / Fruits and vegetables based foods / Desserts / Fruits based foods / Compotes / Apple compotes / Applesauces

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 Unsweetened Apple Sauce, 1 of its 1 tracked ingredient carries 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 Unsweetened Apple 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
A
Nutri-Score

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

1
NOVA Group 1
Unprocessed or minimally processed

Unprocessed or minimally processed foods are whole foods that have been altered only by removal of inedible parts, drying, crushing, filtering, or pasteurization.

Full Ingredients List

Apples, water, ascorbic acid

Product Details

Barcode
0021130191406
Nutri-Score
Grade A
NOVA Group
1 — Unprocessed or minimally processed
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

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

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

What's behind the 4/5 rating on Unsweetened Apple Sauce?

The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Unsweetened Apple Sauce's mapped ingredients average out to 4/5, which is 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.