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EWG Overall Score Breakdown
The product score is based on weighted scores for nutrition, ingredient and processing concerns. Generally, nutrition counts most, ingredient concerns next and degree of processing least. The weighted scores are added together to determine the final score. Read more about scores here.
EWG scored on three factors: nutrition, ingredient concerns, and the degree of processing. Read the full scoring methodology.
Considers calories, saturated fat, trans fat, sugar, sodium, protein, fiber and fruit, vegetable and nut content to differentiate between healthful and less healthful foods. For more information on nutrition concerns, read our full methodology.
Contains ingredients that may contribute small amounts of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Sunflower Oil and Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids [read more]
Contains 34% of the Institute of Medicine's daily sodium (salt) recommendations based on adequate intake [read more]
This product contains added sugar ingredients: Sugars and Glucose [read more]
* Calculated based 100 grams & a single serving.
Considers food additives, pesticides, hormones, antibiotics and contaminants like mercury and BPA, which can affect human health and the environment. For more information on ingredient concerns, read methodology.
This product is not certified organic [read more]
Antibiotics were likely used in the production of this meat [read more]
Ingredient(s) derived from animals that may have been treated with hormones and/or growth promoters [read more]
This product has 9 ingredients with concerns:
Estimates how much the food has been processed. Considers many factors, chief among them, modification of individual ingredients from whole foods and number of artificial ingredients. For more information on processing concerns, read our full methodology.
Product has been classified as having high processing concerns
Products with moderate and high processing concerns generally have more artificial ingredients, more ingredients that have been significantly modified from whole foods, and more ingredients overall.
This product is not certified organic [read more]
Contains food additives of moderate concern
Antibiotics were likely used in the production of this meat [read more]
Ingredient(s) derived from animals that may have been treated with hormones and/or growth promoters [read more]
Contains ingredients that may contribute small amounts of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Sunflower Oil and Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids [read more]
Contains the non-specific ingredient "flavor" [read more]
Contains 34% of the Institute of Medicine's daily sodium (salt) recommendations based on adequate intake [read more]
This product contains added sugar ingredients: Sugars and Glucose [read more]
Product has been classified as having high processing concerns
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COOKED PASTA (WATER, ENRICHED SEMOLINA (DURUM SEMOLINA, NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), ALFREDO SAUCE: WATER, CREAM (WATER, EDIBLE VEGETABLE FAT [HYDROGENATED OIL], LIQUID GLUCOSE, EMULSIFIERS [SODIUM LACTATE, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, PROPYLENE GLYCOL, SOY LECITHIN, SORBITAN MONOSTEARATE] CASEINATE, ACIDITY REGULATORS (SODIUM CITRATE, SODIUM PHOSPHATE]), STABILIZERS (MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, GUAR GUM, XANTHAN GUM, HYDROXYPROPYL METHYLCELLULOSE), PARMESAN CHEESE (COW'S MILK, LACTIC ACID FERMENTATION, SALT, ENZYME [CHYMAX], PASTEURIZED MILK, STARTER CULTURE, SALT, RENNET), SEASONING POWDER (WHEAT FLOUR, SUGAR, CORN STARCH, IODIZED SALT, MILK SOLIDS [WHEY POWDER, LACTOSE], DEHYDRATED VEGETABLE [ONION, GARLIC], YEAST EXTRACT, WHITE PEPPER, ACIDIFYING AGENTS [CITRIC ACID, MALIC ACID], GUAR GUM), BUTTER (PASTEURIZED CREAM FROM COW'S MILK, SALT), SUNFLOWER OIL, REFINED FLOUR, GARLIC, SALT, BLACK PEPPER, XANTHAN GUM, DRY PARSLEY, DRY BASIL, DRY OREGANO, CHILI POWDER, FULLY COOKED ITALIAN STYLE DICED CHICKEN BREAST WITH RIB MEAT - CARAMEL COLOR ADDED (BONELESS, SKINLESS, CHICKEN BREAST WITH RIB MEAT, WATER), SEASONING [MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, ROMANO CHEESE {SKIM COW'S MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES}, SUGAR, DEHYDRATED GARLIC, DEHYDRATED ONION, NATURAL FLAVOR, SALT, SODIUM PHOSPHATES], SEASONING [SALT, CORN FLOUR, MALTODEXTRIN, CORN STARCH, PAPRIKA, DEFATTED SOY FLOUR, SPICES, BAKING POWDER {SODIUM BICARBONATE, CORN STARCH, SODIUM ALUMINUM SULFATE, CALCIUM SULFATE MONOCALCIUM SULFATE}, CARAMEL COLOR, EXTRACTIVE OF PAPRIKA]), BROCCOLI FLORETS, CARROTS, GREEN PEAS.
Products remain in the database for two years after their label information is recorded in stores. A product with label information last recorded more than a year ago is marked with an * identifying it as an older product.
Products remain in the Database for two years after their label information is recorded in stores, even when they have been discontinued (products may remain in stores and pantries long past the date they cease to be manufactured). EWG marks a product it is aware has been discontinued with a banner identifying it as such.
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Environmental Impact: Contains chicken, which has a lower carbon footprint compared to other meats. [read more]
This product contains the following ingredient(s) that may be genetically engineered or derived from GE crops: Corn Flour, Corn Starch, Sugars, Soy Flour, Vegetable Fat, Maltodextrin, Modified Food Starch, Xanthan Gum, Hydrogenated Oil, Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids, Lecithin (Soy), Lactic Acid, Citric Acid, Sodium Citrates, and Glucose [read more]
Contains ingredients derived from wheat, milk, soybean or egg - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
3.0 servings per container
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