Marinara Sauce
Marinara Sauce appears in 125 indexed US food products. No FDA SAFFA status or CSPI rating is attached in this snapshot, so this page reports prevalence rather than a safety verdict.
What the data can answer
Marinara Sauce appears in 125 catalogued products, but this snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to it. This page therefore cannot answer whether the ingredient is safe from those sources. It can show how often it occurs, where it tends to sit on labels, and which kinds of products contain it.
- 125
- catalogued products
- #2,692
- usage rank of 247,206
- 35
- named brands represented
- 25%
- average depth down ingredient lists
Catalog prevalence comes from Open Food Facts ingredient lists. FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine labels are shown only when the source record contains them.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 41 of 125 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Ahold, breaded chicken parmesan; ANGEL HAIR MARINARA; Beef Meatballs In Marinara Sauce to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 45–100 score range to Marinara Sauce itself. The ingredient most often sits near the top of the captured list, and Frozen foods supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
41 of 125 linked records have some flagged component
All 120 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 45–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
Marinara Sauce: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,692 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,692
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 22 others that also appear in exactly 125 products, listed in more products than 98.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 25%
- Averaged label depth puts Marinara Sauce near the top of the captured list (25% of list length, mean slot 12.3). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
What else is usually in the same product as Marinara Sauce
Across the 125 products on this site that list Marinara Sauce, these flagged additives appear alongside it most often. The comparison column is how often each one appears across every product with a parsed ingredient list, so the two figures are measured over the same set. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.9x more often with Marinara Sauce than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Marinara Sauce products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 21 | 16.8% | 5.7% |
| BHA | 16 | 12.8% | 0.7% |
| Carrageenan | 13 | 10.4% | 4.5% |
| BHT | 13 | 10.4% | 1.1% |
| Propyl Gallate | 6 | 4.8% | 0.2% |
Co-occurrence describes what manufacturers formulate together. It is not a claim that these additives interact, and it carries no regulatory meaning. Counted over products with parsed ingredient lists; Open Food Facts, 2026-09-01.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 16 sampled products listed below: its overall safety score against how many separately flagged ingredients its label carries. Bubble size is the number of ingredient rows the label actually resolved to.
Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Marinara Sauce
Products Containing Marinara Sauce
High-volume slice (16 of 125) for products naming Marinara Sauce:
Marinara Sauce vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Marinara Sauce sits among other busy catalog rows (125 products, mean score 93.5/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Aluminum Free Baking Powder; Annatto Extracts; Apple Concentrate. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Marinara Sauce page
125 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Marinara Sauce are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Marinara Sauce to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Marinara Sauce — common follow-ups
Does Marinara Sauce carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Marinara Sauce. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Marinara Sauce? ▼
Marinara Sauce ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,692 of 247,206), appearing in 125 indexed products led by Frozen foods. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Marinara Sauce so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Marinara Sauce appears in 125 products (#2,692 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Marinara Sauce). Safety ratings: CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence: Open Food Facts via PlainFoodSafe (September 2026). Figures are computed from those sources, no editor-typed counts. Methodology · State regulations.