Pepperoni Flavored Traditional Pasta Sauce, Zesty Italian
by Delgrosso
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0074908324414 · Delgrosso · Condiments. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Pepperoni Flavored Traditional Pasta Sauce, Zesty Italian by Delgrosso scores 55/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 27 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 3 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 27-component label is layered, beginning with Organic Tomato Puree, Water, Tomato Paste. 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.
- 55/100
- Concern safety score
- 3
- Few flagged · of 27 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
45/100
Grade D
Ingredient Safety
55/100
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.
08324414 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Pepperoni Flavored Traditional Pasta Sauce, Zesty Italian label screening desk
7 of 27 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sodium Nitrate). Source sheet 08324414 · 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: Project 7, gourmet sugar free gum, sour caramel apple · Nearest score peer is Project 7, gourmet sugar free gum, sour caramel apple 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 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.
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
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. Pepperoni Flavored Traditional Pasta Sauce, Zesty Italian scores 43.3 points below that category average (55/100 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
Pepperoni Flavored Traditional Pasta Sauce, Zesty Italian lists 27 ingredients on its label
27 91st percentile a longer ingredient list than 91% of the 27,084 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 186 products (1%)
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- 1,563 products (6%)
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- 934 products (3%)
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- 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 55/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (3 flagged of 27 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Tomato puree (water, tomato paste), fresh onions, pepperoni (pork and beef, salt, 2% or les water, dextrose, natural spices, oleoresin of paprika,lactic acid starter culture, garlic powder, sodium nitrate, bha, bht, citric acid), sugar, salt, fresh celery, imported olive oil, imported pecorino romano cheese (pasteurzied sheep's milk, salt, cheese culture, enzymes), green peppers, spices, garlic and lemon juice.
Categories
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Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Pepperoni Flavored Traditional Pasta Sauce, Zesty Italian
Neighbours outside Delgrosso near Pepperoni Flavored Traditional Pasta Sauce, Zesty Italian's mid-band score (55/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Delgrosso; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (3 flagged of 27 on 0074908324414).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (27 on 0074908324414).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Sodium Nitrate is the first flagged ingredient selected from Pepperoni Flavored Traditional Pasta Sauce, Zesty Italian's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 27-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sodium Nitrate. Open Sodium Nitrate
- Compare Pepperoni Flavored Traditional Pasta Sauce, Zesty Italian's 3 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 0074908324414: 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.