Sauce
by Bell-View
Scores 100/100 on FDA SAFFA + CSPI ingredient analysis , with no flagged ingredients identified.
The verdict
Sauce by Bell-View scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 9 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. This is a focused 9-component label led by Apples, Cane Sugar, Red Raspberries; compare those leading ingredients with the product's processing and nutrition fields before deciding whether it fits your goal. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- flagged ingredients of 9 analyzed
- Group 3
- Processed foods
- D
- 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.
05000197 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Sauce label screening desk
Sauce screens 100/100 with 0 flagged of 9 parsed ingredients. 2 of 9 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Garlic). Derived index from public OFF + FDA SAFFA + CSPI data — not an official FDA rating; see methodology. Methodology · Read with nearest score peer: Seedless Preserves (0 pts).
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.
This label falls in the fourth Nutri-Score band. The model arrives there when its penalty terms — energy density, sugars, saturated fat, sodium — carry more weight in the calculation than the fibre, protein and produce content it credits. The band covers a wide span of the points scale, so position within it is not visible from the letter alone. The grade reflects the declared nutrition panel and is unrelated to the additive ratings listed below, which come from different bodies applying different criteria.
The declared list parsed into a small number of components. On a short list the registry screen covers close to everything the packaging declares, and any single matched component accounts for a correspondingly large share of the composite. Short lists also leave less room for parsing error, since there are fewer separators and qualifiers for the extraction to resolve.
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. 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
Sauce lists 9 ingredients on its label
9 23rd percentile a longer ingredient list than 23% of the 27,084 products 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
- 185 products (1%)
- 2–4
- 1,023 products (4%)
- 4–6
- 1,394 products (5%)
- 6–8
- 2,087 products (8%)
- 8–10
- 2,813 products (10%)
- 10–12
- 3,061 products (11%)
- 12–14
- 2,819 products (10%)
- 14–16
- 2,728 products (10%)
- 16–18
- 2,440 products (9%)
- 18–20
- 2,052 products (8%)
- 20–22
- 1,563 products (6%)
- 22–24
- 1,254 products (5%)
- 24–26
- 935 products (3%)
- 26–28
- 697 products (3%)
- 28–30
- 549 products (2%)
- 30–32
- 423 products (2%)
- 32–34
- 248 products (1%)
- 34–36
- 193 products (1%)
- 36–38
- 140 products (1%)
- 38–40
- 133 products (0%)
- 40 and above
- 347 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
Apples, pure cane sugar, red raspberries, jalapeno peppers, apple cider vinegar, garlic, salt, jalapeno chipotle powder, natural hickory smoke.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Sauce
Neighbours outside Bell-View with screening scores in the same high band as Sauce (100/100 here). The More-from block above stays brand-local.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by ingredient screening score (100/100 on this barcode).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (9 on 0073405000197).
Barcode 0073405000197: 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.