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- Rao's Homemade Marinara. The absolute best store-bought marinara sauce out there is without a doubt Rao's Homemade Marinara. Don't believe us? Would you believe the recommendation of a culinary luminary like Ina Garten instead?
- Lidia's Marinara Sauce. One of the best store-bought marinara sauces out there surely has to be Lidia's Marinara Sauce, featuring the visage of chef and television personality Lidia Bastianich.
- Cucina Antica Marinara. If you're looking for something a little fancier to put on your pasta, the Cucina Antica marinara might be perfect for you. It's a little more expensive but made with premium ingredients and absolutely loaded with flavor that's hard to find elsewhere on grocery store shelves.
- Newman's Own Organic Marinara. For another healthy and organic sauce option, Newman's Own Organic Marinara is a pretty good store-bought marinara sauce.
Specifically, there is more naturally occurring sugar in the tomatoes compared to years past. However, there is still no added sugar in our products, only what is naturally occurring in the tomatoes.
- First… The Worst
- Bertolli Organic Traditional Olive Oil, Basil & Garlic
- Ragu Old World Style Organic Traditional
- Prego Farmers' Market
- Ragu Hearty Traditional
- Ragu Old World Style Marinara
- Emeril's Tomato & Basil
- Barilla Marinara
- Ragu Old World Style Traditional
- Francesco Rinaldi Hearty Tomato & Basil
Not only do each of these spaghetti sauce brands contain added sugar—some with more than a bowl of Frosted Flakes!—but many also contain canola or soybean oil in lieu of or in addition to the more traditional extra virgin olive oil. This is a costly switch, as studies have shown that EVOO contains the highest amount of disease-fighting polyphenols ...
Pasta sauce is one of the top sources of cancer-fighting lycopene in the American diet thanks to the Italian gravy's use of cooked tomatoes. Bertolli doubles down on the benefits by using organic tomatoes, a variety that research suggests may have higher levels of these disease-fighting polyphenols and vitamin Cthan conventionally-grown varieties. ...
Like Bertolli, Ragu does right by using all organic products in their Traditional sauce. (In case you didn't know, Ragu's "Traditional" sauces differ from their "Marinara" sauces because of the addition of Romano cheese). Unfortunately, their attempt to do right is foiled by their offenses of adding inflammatory soybean oil—which, we're happy to sa...
Tomato & Basil Classic Marinara Prego Farmer's Market sauces are definitely a step up from their conventional varieties. While there are no organic products—as you may have been led to believe by the "Farmers' Market" labelling—the ingredient list is short and without any questionable additives. That is, except for sugar. Go with the Tomato & Basil...
We approve of a short ingredient list, but we're skeptical of Ragu's inclusion of the always-ambiguous additive, "Natural Flavor," one or many chemical compounds derived from "natural sources" which can include anywhere between 1-100 different ingredients. Talk about sketchy spaghetti sauce brands!
Here's where it starts to get dicey—and we're not just referring to the diced tomatoes. Ragu adds something called "Calcium Chloride" to their crushed tomatoes as a "firming acid." The additive is Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) by the FDA, but we're assuming Ragu uses it to thicken up their otherwise watery sauces instead of adding more tomato...
We were shocked to discover the celebrity chef made famous for his Italian dishes uses more soybean oil than extra virgin olive oil in his recipe. Choose one of our healthier spaghetti sauce brands for a more wholesome bowl.
We wished Barilla could have made it higher on the list thanks to its low-fat content, average sodium levels, and use of only extra virgin olive oil. But unfortunately, this spaghetti sauce was a little too heavy-handed with the sugar shaker, racking up nearly as much sweet stuff as a bowl of Trix.
Ragu's Traditional sauce sinks down below their Marinara offering because of their excessive use of sugar and soybean oil. Seems like this is one of the unhealthiest spaghetti sauce brands across the board.
Despite working for Ragu while growing up, the founder of Francesco Rinaldi somehow manages to make nutritionally-inferior options to the well-recognized brand. This sauce falls short because it's high in sodium and full of extra sugar.
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As a general rule added sugar free Marinara sauces still contain 2g-5g of naturally occurring sugar per serving from the tomatoes. Some of the best no added sugar marinara sauces are: Yo Mama’s Foods
- Rao’s Homemade Marinara. $ 6.99 on sale, regularly $9.19. For all those of you who bitched the last time I didn’t include Rao’s in my rankings, congratulations!
- Mezzetta Marinara Sauce, $7.09. Mezzetta, a company out of Napa Valley in California, had one of two sauces that I would consider putting on food, and it was pretty close between Mezzetta and our winner.
- Whole Foods Marinara, $5.69. This is one of two Whole Foods brands, an imported sauce from Italy and the more expensive of the two, though not actually that expensive relative to the rest of the list.
- Newman’s Own Marinara, $2.99 on sale, regularly $3.19. There was a fairly significant gulf between the top three and this one, but an equally big gulf between this one and the rest.
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Apr 28, 2017 · So, behold, a ranking of your favorite marinara sauces by sugar content per serving (aka 1/2 cup sauce). Oh, and for further reference, 4 grams of sugar = 1 teaspoon. 12. Bertolli Tomato & Basil = 12 grams. Yes, ladies and gents, that is 12 grams of sugar you see.
Feb 18, 2020 · No Sugar – The tomatoes are naturally sweet which means you don’t have to add any additional sugar to the sauce. Zero Prep – Unless you count opening the fridge and pantry, this recipe should require any prep!
