Tomato Basil Garlic Pasta Sauce

Breakdown

Ultra-processed · 4 ingredients to avoid

Great Value Tomato Basil Garlic Pasta Sauce scores 5/100 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. Per serving it carries 2g fiber, 2g protein and 6g sugar. 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.

Great Value Tomato Basil Garlic Pasta Sauce lists 17 ingredients, starting with Ngredients: Tomato Puree, Water, Tomato Paste, Diced Tomatoes In Tomato Juice and Vegetable Oil. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

60 kcal per serving, or 47 kcal per 100g. Calories are only part of the picture — Tallow scores Great Value Tomato Basil Garlic Pasta Sauce on what the ingredients are, not how many calories they carry.

At 5/100 Great Value Tomato Basil Garlic Pasta Sauce scores worse than most pasta & cooking sauces we have scored. A higher-scoring option in pasta & cooking sauces is Trader Joe's Organic Tomato Sauce at 100/100.