Original Thick & Smooth Taco Sauce

Breakdown

Ultra-processed · 2 ingredients to avoid

Ortega Original Thick & Smooth Taco Sauce scores 17/100 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 0g protein and 1g 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.

Ortega Original Thick & Smooth Taco Sauce lists 14 ingredients, starting with Tomato Puree, Water, Tomato Paste, Corn Syrup and Distilled Vinegar. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

10 kcal per serving, or 63 kcal per 100g. Calories are only part of the picture — Tallow scores Ortega Original Thick & Smooth Taco Sauce on what the ingredients are, not how many calories they carry.

At 17/100 Ortega Original Thick & Smooth Taco 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.