How Healthy Are These "Health Foods?" We Asked Top Nutritionists to Find Out

Claim: Pirro's Sauce is a line of sauces made using simple ingredients, bright flavors with no additives for lighter cooking.

What the experts say: First off it's worth pointing out that this line of sauces can rival most made-from scratch options as far as taste. That said, the Nutrition Twins point out that although it's great that the sauces source fresh produce for all their ingredients, including their basil, carrots, garlic, fennel, etc., and don't use additives, they still include added sweetener (honey) and a source of saturated fat (butter), in a marinara sauce. "Their Bolognese sauce is nitrate and nitrite-free, but still contains saturated fat from the uncured bacon and the veal. Each one-half cup serving of the Bolognese sauce has more calories than the same one-half cup serving of pasta and also has 3.5 grams of saturated fat per serving."

Verdict: Fresh and tasty, but rather high-cal!

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