Pizza Sauce
Pizza Sauce appears in 174 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
Pizza Sauce appears in 174 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.
- 174
- catalogued products
- #2,125
- usage rank of 247,206
- 64
- named brands represented
- 47%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 61 of 174 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Albert's Pizza, Roasted Vegan; All natural pepperoni, mozzarella cheese in a puff pastry pie; Artisan crust pizza, pepperoni to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 35–100 score range to Pizza Sauce itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Meals supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
61 of 174 linked records have some flagged component
All 172 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 35–100 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.
Pizza Sauce: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,125 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,125
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 7 others that also appear in exactly 174 products, listed in more products than 99.1% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 47%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 174 products listing it (mean slot 19.0). Pizza Sauce usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 Pizza Sauce
Across the 174 products on this site that list Pizza 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 10x more often with Pizza Sauce than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Pizza Sauce products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 42 | 24.1% | 2.4% |
| BHA | 41 | 23.6% | 0.7% |
| BHT | 40 | 23% | 1.1% |
| Caramel Coloring | 12 | 6.9% | 5.7% |
| Potassium Bromate | 5 | 2.9% | 0.1% |
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 Pizza Sauce
Products Containing Pizza Sauce
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 174 indexed products containing Pizza Sauce:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Alpha Tocopheryl Acetate”)
Top-decile company for Pizza Sauce: 174 listings averaging 87.4/100. Nearest count peers include “Alpha Tocopheryl Acetate”, “Chamomile”, “Organic Chicory”.
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 Pizza Sauce page
Start from Pizza Sauce's 174 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Pizza Sauce and read how the term sits on real packages. 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. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Pizza Sauce — common follow-ups
Does Pizza 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 Pizza Sauce. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Pizza Sauce? ▼
Pizza Sauce ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,125 of 247,206), appearing in 174 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Pizza Sauce so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Pizza Sauce appears in 174 products (#2,125 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Pizza 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.