Worcestershire Sauce
by Heinz
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0013000002820 · Heinz. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Worcestershire Sauce by Heinz scores 60/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 28 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 4 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 28-component label is layered, beginning with Ach 3% Tetal Carbohydrate Og 0% | Dietary Fiber 0g Total Sugars 0g Incl, Trans Fat, Cholesterol. Start with any flagged rows, then check the nutrition grade and serving size instead of treating one roll-up score as the whole decision. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 60/100
- Concern safety score
- 4
- Many flagged · of 28 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0013000002820
- Barcode (UPC/EAN)
Computed directly from OpenFoodFacts ingredient data cross-referenced with FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings. See our methodology for the scoring formula.
Composite profile score
One verdict from three independent sources
43/100
Grade D
Ingredient Safety
60/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
N/A
Nutri-Score front-of-pack nutrition grade
Weighted 50% ingredient safety / 25% processing level / 25% nutrition grade. A dimension with no data for this product (common: source coverage is partial) is dropped and its weight redistributes across the remaining dimensions, so missing data never silently lowers the score. See the full benchmark table.
00002820 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Worcestershire Sauce label screening desk
8 of 28 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Trans Fat). Source sheet 00002820 · Open Food Facts · July 2026. The screening score and flag counts are in the verdict band above. This desk is the provenance stamp, not a second scorecard. Methodology · Read with nearest score peer: Lemonade Drink Mix, Lemonade · Nearest score peer is Lemonade Drink Mix, Lemonade at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
This label lands in the third of four positions on the published scale. What separates that position from its neighbours is arithmetic rather than judgement: identical inputs run through the documented weighting always arrive at the same place. Anyone who works the calculation through by hand, using the methodology write-up together with the itemised ratings further down, will reproduce this number exactly — which is the reason for publishing a computed figure instead of an opinion.
No Nutri-Score grade is present for this record in the OpenFoodFacts snapshot this page is built from. The nutritional dimension is absent rather than assessed and withheld: the grade depends on a complete declared nutrition panel, and community-contributed records vary in how much of that panel they carry. Nothing about the missing grade implies anything either way about the panel itself. The screen below covers additive ratings only and does not depend on the nutrition figures.
This label parsed into a long component list. Where many entries are screened at once, the composite tends to reflect the overall mix of registry ratings returned rather than the rating of any one entry. Longer declarations also carry more sub-listed and compound entries, where a parenthetical group is resolved into its parts, so the parsed count can exceed what a reader counts on the packaging.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
Ingredient-list length vs every product we publish
Worcestershire Sauce lists 28 ingredients on its label
28 84th percentile a longer ingredient list than 84% of the 359,392 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 6,050 products (2%)
- 2–4
- 24,522 products (7%)
- 4–6
- 31,054 products (9%)
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- 30,981 products (9%)
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- 31,618 products (9%)
- 10–12
- 29,943 products (8%)
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- 28,403 products (8%)
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- 27,417 products (8%)
- 16–18
- 24,508 products (7%)
- 18–20
- 19,062 products (5%)
- 20–22
- 14,679 products (4%)
- 22–24
- 12,238 products (3%)
- 24–26
- 10,830 products (3%)
- 26–28
- 9,344 products (3%)
- 28–30
- 7,955 products (2%)
- 30–32
- 6,753 products (2%)
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- 5,918 products (2%)
- 34–36
- 5,282 products (1%)
- 36–38
- 4,531 products (1%)
- 38–40
- 4,063 products (1%)
- 40 and above
- 24,241 products (7%)
Source Open Food Facts, product label ingredient lists · July 2026
Ingredient-list length is a descriptive property of the label, not a safety rating. A longer list is not automatically worse and a shorter one is not automatically better; the count is shown so the label can be placed against a comparable population. No category with enough published products was available for this record, so the comparison runs against the whole published catalogue.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
How the 60/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (4 flagged of 28 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
ach 3% tetal carbohydrate og 0% | dietary fiber 0g total sugars 0g incl, og added sugars 0%| ture 0% or protein og combin beef chet grll not a significant source of saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol,vitamin d, calcium, iron and potassium, aste ma question ingredien:distilled white vinegar, call 1-800 - water, molasses, salt, high fructose or visit un t corn syrup, soy sauce (water, salt, hydrolyzed soy protein, corn syrup, caramel coloring), caramel color, natural flavorings, corn syrup, anchovies, polysorbate 80, soy flour, garlic extract, contains: anchovy, soy, 0 mfd, in u,s,a, by kraft heinz foods company pittsburgh, pa 15222 st kraftheinz 12 co c d0 best if used by date on bottle
Other products containing Iron And Potassium
Iron And Potassium is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 19 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
More from Heinz
Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Worcestershire Sauce
Neighbours outside Heinz near Worcestershire Sauce's mid-band score (60/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Heinz; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (4 flagged of 28 on 0013000002820).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (28 on 0013000002820).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Trans Fat is the first flagged ingredient selected from Worcestershire Sauce's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 28-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Trans Fat. Open Trans Fat
- Compare Worcestershire Sauce's 4 flagged ingredients with a product from the same score neighbourhood. Compare labels
- Check how caution flags contribute to the derived screening score before drawing a dietary conclusion. Read the method
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0013000002820: product data from Open Food Facts (July 2026). Screening from FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine where attached. Figures are computed from those sources, not editor-typed. Methodology. Reference only, not dietary or medical advice.