Homestyle marinara sauce with meatballs & sausages
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0644216829309 · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Homestyle marinara sauce with meatballs & sausages scores 65/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 55 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 3 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 55-component record, beginning with Marinara Sauce, Chopped Tomato, Tomatoes. 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.
- 65/100
- Concern safety score
- 3
- Few flagged · of 55 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
50/100
Grade C-
Ingredient Safety
65/100
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.
16829309 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Homestyle marinara sauce with meatballs & sausages label screening desk
11 of 55 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: BHA). Source sheet 16829309 · 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
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.
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.
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 15,626 products we've scored in the Meals category, the average safety score is 93.6/100. Homestyle marinara sauce with meatballs & sausages scores 28.6 points below that category average (65/100 vs. 93.6/100), 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 Meals products
Homestyle marinara sauce with meatballs & sausages lists 55 ingredients on its label
55 89th percentile a longer ingredient list than 89% of the 11,283 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 12 products (0%)
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- 83 products (1%)
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- 312 products (3%)
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- 38–40
- 388 products (3%)
- 40 and above
- 3,204 products (28%)
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 11,283 Meals 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 65/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (3 flagged of 55 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Marinara sauce (chopped tomato (tomatoes, tomato puree, salt, citric acid), crushed tomato (tomatoes, salt, citric acid), water, tomato paste (tomato paste, salt, citric acid), onion, parmesan cheese (cow's milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), canola oil, garlic, olive oil, basil, sugar, spices, sea salt), italian sausage ((pork, water, salt, spices, monosodium glutamate, sugar, paprika, bha, bht, citric acid). bha, bht, citric acid added to help protect flavor), italian style meatballs ((beef, pork, water, bread crumbs (wheat flour, salt, and yeast), romano cheese (pasteurized cow's milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), ricotta cheese (whey, part skim milk, cream, vinegar, and xanthan gum, locust bean gum, guar gum [stabilizers]), textured vegetable protein (soy protein concentrate, caramel color), liquid egg whites, salt, dried garlic, spices, parsley, brown sugar, caramel color, disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate, bha, bht, citric acid. (bha, bht, and citric acid added to help protect flavor) (caramel color added)).
Other products containing Chopped Tomato
Chopped Tomato is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 6 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
BHA is the first flagged ingredient selected from Homestyle marinara sauce with meatballs & sausages's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 55-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to BHA. Open BHA
- Compare Homestyle marinara sauce with meatballs & sausages'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 0644216829309: 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.