Original Sauce

Name: Original Sauce
Brand: A.1.

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Ingredients · 14

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Common questions

Is A.1. Original Sauce healthy?

A.1. Original Sauce scores 13/100 on Tallow — our avoid band. That number comes from what is on the label: the ingredients, how processed it is, and what it is packaged in. It is not a verdict on your diet — Tallow does not weigh calories, portion size or how often you eat it, so a high score means the ingredients are clean, not that the food is unlimited.

What is in A.1. Original Sauce?

A.1. Original Sauce lists 14 ingredients, starting with Water, Tomato Paste, Vinegar, Corn Syrup and Salt. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

Does A.1. Original Sauce contain seed oils?

No. Nothing in A.1. Original Sauce’s ingredient list matches a seed oil — canola, soybean, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, sunflower, safflower, rice bran or peanut oil, or an unspecified "vegetable oil".

How processed is A.1. Original Sauce?

A.1. Original Sauce is NOVA group 4: ultra-processed. That is the top of the scale and the classification the score penalises most heavily.

How does A.1. Original Sauce compare to other pasta & cooking sauces?

At 13/100 A.1. Original Sauce scores worse than most pasta & cooking sauces we have scored. A higher-scoring option in pasta & cooking sauces is Simply Nature Organic Tomato & Basil Pasta Sauce at 100/100.

Is A.1. Original Sauce organic?

A.1. Original Sauce is not certified organic in our data.

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