Rao's Sauce Ingredients & the Cleanest Jarred Pasta Sauces: Label Check
Chapters
- The Short Answer
- Rao's, Line by Line
- Added Sugar
- Seed Oils Versus Olive Oil
- Citric Acid and Calcium Chloride
- Natural Flavor and Yeast Extract
- How the Score Works
- How to Read a Sauce Label
- The Ranked Picks
- Or Make Your Own
- Your Turn
Audio from the Clean Food Score video of the same name; the video shows the labels and scores on screen.
Rao's Marinara has eight ingredients and no sugar or seed oil, so why doesn't it score 100? We read pasta sauce labels line by line: added sugar, seed oils vs olive oil, citric acid, natural flavor, and the cleanest jars we've scored (as of October 2026).
Full guide and the products we checked
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Chapters
0:00 The Short Answer
0:47 Rao's, Line by Line
1:30 Added Sugar
2:32 Seed Oils Versus Olive Oil
3:31 Citric Acid and Calcium Chloride
4:13 Natural Flavor and Yeast Extract
5:04 How the Score Works
5:43 How to Read a Sauce Label
6:29 The Ranked Picks
7:25 Or Make Your Own
8:07 Your Turn
Product scores are Clean Food Score's 0–100 label scores as shown on cleanfoodscore.com on 2026-10-16. Recipes change, so read the package you buy. We read labels; this is not medical advice.
Music
"Reminiscing" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Almost Bliss" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Friday Morning" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Fresh Air" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Sound effects: Kenney (kenney.nl), CC0.
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