Pastas & Grains Food Quality Guide
Food Quality Guide compares pastas & grains products using Longevity and Food Integrity scores side by side. Longevity reflects nutrition per serving, while Food Integrity reflects ingredients, processing and label transparency. This page summarizes 2 published pastas & grains products currently analyzed by Food Quality Guide, with links to each individual breakdown.
Category summary
- Pastas & Grains products analyzed
- 2
- Scored on both measures
- 2
- Median Longevity Score
- 90/100
- Median Food Integrity Score
- 90/100
- Scoring 80+ on both
- 2
- Brands represented
- 1
- 2 pastas & grains products analyzed with both Longevity and Food Integrity scores.
- 2 score at least 80 on both measures.
- Highest Longevity Score in this category: 95/100 (Trader Joe's Organic Under The Sea Shaped Italian Pasta).
- Highest Food Integrity Score in this category: 95/100 (Trader Joe's Organic Fall Leaf Shaped Italian Pasta).
- Median scores across analyzed pastas & grains products: Longevity 90/100, Food Integrity 90/100.
- 1 brand represented in this category page.
How the two scores differ
- Longevity Score
- Evaluates nutrition-related characteristics relevant to longer-term eating patterns. Longevity methodology
- Food Integrity Score
- Evaluates ingredient composition, processing and related ingredient-quality considerations. Food Integrity methodology
Food Integrity examines characteristics such as ingredients, processing and additive concerns, while Longevity evaluates nutrition-related characteristics associated with longer-term eating patterns. Because the two analyses answer different questions, a product can perform differently under each.
Top Pastas & Grains Products
Ranked by the weaker of the two scores.
Products in this section perform strongly under both Food Quality Guide scoring lenses; ranking favors the weaker of the two scores so a very high result in one dimension does not conceal a substantially lower result in the other.
- Rank 1
Organic Fall Leaf Shaped Italian Pasta
Exceptional Choice
- Longevity Score
- 85/100
- Food Integrity Score
- 95/100
Longevity analysis for Trader Joe's Organic Fall Leaf Shaped Italian PastaFood Integrity analysis for Trader Joe's Organic Fall Leaf Shaped Italian Pasta
- Rank 2
Organic Under The Sea Shaped Italian Pasta
Exceptional Choice
- Longevity Score
- 95/100
- Food Integrity Score
- 85/100
Longevity analysis for Trader Joe's Organic Under The Sea Shaped Italian PastaFood Integrity analysis for Trader Joe's Organic Under The Sea Shaped Italian Pasta
All analyzed Pastas & Grains products
2 analyzed products, ranked by balanced score (weaker of Longevity and Food Integrity scores).
- Organic Fall Leaf Shaped Italian PastaLongevity Score 85/100 · Food Integrity Score 95/100Longevity analysis for Trader Joe's Organic Fall Leaf Shaped Italian Pasta · Food Integrity analysis for Trader Joe's Organic Fall Leaf Shaped Italian Pasta
- Organic Under The Sea Shaped Italian PastaLongevity Score 95/100 · Food Integrity Score 85/100Longevity analysis for Trader Joe's Organic Under The Sea Shaped Italian Pasta · Food Integrity analysis for Trader Joe's Organic Under The Sea Shaped Italian Pasta