Meat sauce
by Prego
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0051000270139 · Prego · Condiments. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Meat sauce by Prego scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 65 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 65-component record, beginning with Dietary Guidelines Per Day For A 2, About 10, 120ml. 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.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- None flagged · of 65 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- C
- 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
68/100
Grade B-
Ingredient Safety
100/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
C
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.
00270139 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Meat sauce label screening desk
5 of 65 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Garlic Extract). Source sheet 00270139 · 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: Lipton, decaffeinated superfruit green tea, jasmine passionfruit citrus flavor with other natural flavor · Nearest score peer is Lipton, decaffeinated superfruit green tea, jasmine passionfruit citrus flavor with other natural flavor at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
Within the four-tier shelf-label framework this site publishes, the composite for this product falls in the highest band. That band is defined by a threshold on the derived score alone: it is where labels land once components carrying caution-or-worse registry ratings contribute little or nothing to the deduction. The band is a summary of what the screened registries return for the components that were parsed, so it inherits their coverage gaps — a component absent from both registries neither raises nor lowers the figure. The threshold and the weighting behind it are set out on the methodology page.
Nutri-Score settled on its middle grade here, the band the algorithm produces when the penalty and credit sides of its nutrient ledger come out close to balanced. A mid-scale grade is a statement about the panel as a whole rather than about any single nutrient, and products arrive at it by very different routes: a moderate profile across every term, or high marks on some offset by heavy penalties on others. The grade is computed separately from the ingredient screen below and the two are not comparable measures.
The declared list is among the longer ones in this catalogue. A component set this wide means the screen returns many individual ratings, and the composite accumulates a large number of small contributions instead of turning on a handful of entries. At this length the per-component table below is substantially more informative than the single figure, because the figure compresses a great deal of variation into one number.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
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. Meat sauce scores 1.7 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 98.3/100), so it is roughly typical for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Condiments products
Meat sauce lists 65 ingredients on its label
65 100th percentile a longer ingredient list than every other product we track
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
- 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
Full Ingredient List
1/2 cup of prego® flavored with meat sauce has: 40% of dailymegetablest loat low sat ated fat /2 cup serving of sauce provides rehend 2 1/2 cups of a variety of veg ryuivalent of vegetables, dietary guidelines per day for a 2,000 calorie diet, trition facts serv 8: about 10, s, size: 1/2 cup (120ml), amount per serving: calories 90, bl fat 3g (4% dv), sat, fat 1g (5% dv), trans fat 0g, polyunsat, a,5g, monounsat, fat 1,5g, cholest, 5mg (2% dv), sodium 4ng (21% dv), total carb, 13g (5% dv), fiber 2g (7% dv), total sars 10g (incl, 4g added sugars, 8% dv), protein 2g, vitamin d (cdv), calcium (2% dv), iron (4% dv), potassium (8% dv), inedients: tomato puree (water, tomato paste), diced tomatoes in tomato ju, sugar, beef, canola oil, contains less than 1% of: salt, spices, citric ac, dehydrated onions, dehydrated garlic, beef fat, flavoring, dehydrated be stock, onion extract, garlic extract, beef extract, yeast extract, cmpbell soup company, camden, nj, u,s,a, 08103-1701 tie ingredients from sugar and canola in this product come fiom genetically modified crops, for information about gmo ingredients, visit: owhatsinmyfood,com stove: heat, stirring occasionally, recommend use by date on container, promptly refrigerate unused sauce, do not purchase unless cap and neckband are intact questions or comments? call us at 1-888-for-prego, visit our web site at www,prego,com, 27013-1btn 910007022488 01 51000 27013 9
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Meat sauce
Neighbours outside Prego with screening scores in the same high band as Meat sauce (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Prego; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (100/100 here, no caution flags on the parsed list).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (65 on 0051000270139).
Read the longer label in layers
Read the longer label in layers
Meat sauce has a longer ingredient list than 100% of its Condiments category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.
- Open Garlic Extract first, then work through the remaining 65 parsed entries. Inspect ingredients
- Compare this longer label with a cross-brand product of similar list depth. Compare label depth
- Use the methodology to separate a derived screening score from dietary or medical advice. Read the boundary
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0051000270139: 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.