Concern

Hormel, pizza ready sauce & meat, three meat

by Hormel

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0037600125512 · Hormel · Condiments. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0037600125512 · Serving size 0.25 cup (63 g)

The verdict

Hormel, pizza ready sauce & meat, three meat by Hormel scores 50/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 34 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 4 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 34-component record, beginning with Tomatoes, Water, Tomato Paste. That density can include amounts and label fragments, so verify the physical label before relying on ingredient order or completeness. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.

50/100
Concern safety score
4
Many flagged · of 34 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
E
Nutri-Score nutrition grade

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

33/100

Grade F

Ingredient Safety

50/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

E

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.

00125512 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Hormel, pizza ready sauce & meat, three meat label screening desk

SCORE-CONC 50/100 FLAG-MANY 4 flagged LEN-DENSE 34 ing. REG-SPARSE 29% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-SHORT Len top 3% LEAD-FLAG BHA PHOTO-FINISH Pie Filling And · ±0 BOOK-OFF …125512 · July 2026

10 of 34 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: BHA). Source sheet 00125512 · 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: Pie Filling And Pudding, Lemon · Nearest score peer is Pie Filling And Pudding, Lemon 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.

Nutri-Score assigned its lowest band to this label. The algorithm reserves that grade for nutrition panels where the values it penalises sit well above the components it credits. The two systems on this page measure genuinely different things: a product can hold this grade while carrying no additive flagged by the registries screened below, and a product graded well can carry several. Neither reading substitutes for the other, and the per-component table is where the additive picture is set out.

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

1. Hormel, pizza ready sauce & meat, three meat: 50/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Hormel, pizza ready sauce…50/1002. Pie Filling And Pudding, Lemon: 50/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Pie Filling And Pudding, …50/1003. Gelatin Dessert: 50/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Gelatin Dessert50/1004. Salsa Con Queso: 50/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Salsa Con Queso50/1005. Ice Pops: 50/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Ice Pops50/100
Nearest cross-brand screening scores for Hormel, pizza ready sauce & meat, three meat (50/100 on 34 parsed ingredients).
Chart values as text

Unit: PlainFoodSafe screening score out of 100. Data current as of July 2026.

Hormel, pizza ready sauce & meat, three meat
50/100
Pie Filling And Pudding, Lemon
50/100
Gelatin Dessert
50/100
Salsa Con Queso
50/100
Ice Pops
50/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 31,268 products we've scored in the Condiments category, the average safety score is 98.3/100. Hormel, pizza ready sauce & meat, three meat scores 48.3 points below that category average (50/100 vs. 98.3/100), so it is a comparatively weaker pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.

Ingredient-list length vs other Condiments products

Hormel, pizza ready sauce & meat, three meat lists 34 ingredients on its label

34 97th percentile a longer ingredient list than 97% of the 27,084 products we track

0–2: 186 products (1%). Below this entry. 2–4: 1,031 products (4%). Below this entry. 4–6: 1,392 products (5%). Below this entry. 6–8: 2,093 products (8%). Below this entry. 8–10: 2,811 products (10%). Below this entry. 10–12: 3,070 products (11%). Below this entry. 12–14: 2,818 products (10%). Below this entry. 14–16: 2,724 products (10%). Below this entry. 16–18: 2,451 products (9%). Below this entry. 18–20: 2,045 products (8%). Below this entry. 20–22: 1,563 products (6%). Below this entry. 22–24: 1,244 products (5%). Below this entry. 24–26: 934 products (3%). Below this entry. 26–28: 694 products (3%). Below this entry. 28–30: 551 products (2%). Below this entry. 30–32: 420 products (2%). Below this entry. 32–34: 246 products (1%). Below this entry. 34–36: 196 products (1%). This entry sits in this band. 36–38: 135 products (0%). Above this entry. 38–40: 134 products (0%). Above this entry. 40–42: 346 products (1%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Condiments product, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more products. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Distribution as text

27,084 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 34 (97th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
186 products (1%)
2–4
1,031 products (4%)
4–6
1,392 products (5%)
6–8
2,093 products (8%)
8–10
2,811 products (10%)
10–12
3,070 products (11%)
12–14
2,818 products (10%)
14–16
2,724 products (10%)
16–18
2,451 products (9%)
18–20
2,045 products (8%)
20–22
1,563 products (6%)
22–24
1,244 products (5%)
24–26
934 products (3%)
26–28
694 products (3%)
28–30
551 products (2%)
30–32
420 products (2%)
32–34
246 products (1%)
34–36
196 products (1%)
36–38
135 products (0%)
38–40
134 products (0%)
40 and above
346 products (1%)

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. The comparison here runs against the 27,084 Condiments products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.

Ingredient Safety Analysis

How the 50/100 score is built

Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (4 flagged of 34 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

1
Tomatoes
2
Water
3
Tomato Paste
4
Cooked Italian Sausage
5
Pork
6
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
7
Spices
8
Corn Syrup Solids
9
Caramel Coloring
Coloring
Avoid Approved (color additive, GRAS)
10
Sodium Phosphates
11
Autolyzed Yeast
12
Flavoring Bha
13
Citric Acid
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, ENZYME, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LEAVENING AGENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT
Safe GRAS
14
Bacon
15
Cured With Water
16
Sodium Erythorbate
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DOUGH STRENGTHENER, FLOUR TREATING AGENT, OXIDIZING OR REDUCING AGENT, PROCESSING AID, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT
Safe GRAS
17
Sodium Nitrite
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, PROPELLANT
Avoid Prior Sanctioned
18
May Also
19
Smoke Flavoring
20
Sugar
Sweetener
Cut Back
21
Dextrose
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DRYING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, HUMECTANT, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
Cut Back GRAS
22
Brown Sugar
23
Sodium Phosphate
24
Potassium Chloride
ENZYME, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
Certain People Should Avoid GRAS
25
Flavoring
26
Pepperoni
27
Beef
28
Or Less Of Water
29
Lactic Acid Starter Culture
30
Oleoresin Of Paprika
31
Garlic Powder
32
BHA
Avoid GRAS
33
BHT
Caution GRAS
34
Or Less Of Sugar

Full Ingredient List

Tomatoes (water, tomato paste), cooked italian sausage (pork, water, salt, spices, corn syrup solids, caramel color, sodium phosphates, autolyzed yeast, flavoring bha, citric acid), bacon (cured with water, salt, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite, may also contains smoke flavoring, sugar, dextrose, brown sugar, sodium phosphate, potassium chloride, flavoring), pepperoni (pork, beef, salt, contains 2% or less of water, dextrose, spices, lactic acid starter culture, oleoresin of paprika, garlic powder, sodium nitrite, bha, bht, citric acid), contains 2% or less of sugar, salt, citric acid, flavoring, spices.

Categories

Condiments Sauces Pizza sauces Groceries

Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Hormel, pizza ready sauce & meat, three meat

Neighbours outside Hormel near Hormel, pizza ready sauce & meat, three meat's mid-band score (50/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Hormel; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

BHA is the first flagged ingredient selected from Hormel, pizza ready sauce & meat, three meat's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 34-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to BHA. Open BHA
  • Compare Hormel, pizza ready sauce & meat, three meat'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 0037600125512: 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.