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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: Canola Oil, Soy Bean Oil, and Corn Oil [read more]
Contains 57% of the Institute of Medicine's daily sodium (salt) recommendations based on adequate intake [read more]
This product contains added sugar ingredients: Sugars and Cane Sugar [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]
Rice-based ingredients may contain arsenic [read more]
This product has 5 ingredients with concerns as well as some contamination 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: Canola Oil, Soy Bean Oil, and Corn Oil [read more]
Contains the non-specific ingredient "flavor" [read more]
Contains 57% of the Institute of Medicine's daily sodium (salt) recommendations based on adequate intake [read more]
This product contains added sugar ingredients: Sugars and Cane Sugar [read more]
Rice-based ingredients may contain arsenic [read more]
Product has been classified as having high processing concerns
Natural vs. Artificial Flavors
EWG's Good Food On A Tight Budget
EWG's 2014 Shopper's Guide to Avoiding GE Food
CHICKEN & CHEESE QUESADILLA - (FLOUR TORTILLA [WATER, STONEGROUND WHOLE GRAIN CORN MASA {WITH CELLULOSE GUM, TRACE OF LIME}, WHEAT FLOUR {ENRICHED WITH NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID}, WHEAT GLUTEN, WHEAT STARCH, VEGETABLE OIL {SOYBEAN, CANOLA AND/OR CORN OIL}, DOUGH CONDITIONERS {YEAST, WHEAT GLUTEN, SUGAR, GUAR GUM, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH}], CHARBROILED WHITE CHICKEN MEAT [WHITE CHICKEN MEAT {WATER, RICE STARCH, SALT, SODIUM PHOSPHATE}, MONTEREY JACK CHEESE {PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES}, MONTEREY JACK CHEESE WITH PEPPERS {PASTEURIZED MILK, JALAPENO PEPPERS, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ACETIC ACID, CALCIUM CHLORIDE, ENZYMES}, WATER, GREEN CHILI PEPPERS {WITH SALT, CITRIC ACID, CALCIUM CHLORIDE}, RED BELL PEPPER, TOMATOES {WITH JUICE, CITRIC ACID, CALCIUM CHLORIDE}, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: ONION, JALAPENO PUREE {JALAPENO PEPPERS, SALT, ACETIC ACID, WATER, CALCIUM CHLORIDE}, TOMATO PASTE {TOMATOES}, NATURAL FLAVOR, CHILI PEPPER, SALT, SPICES]), COOKED RICE (WATER, RICE), TOMATOES (TOMATOES, TOMATO PUREE, TOMATO JUICE, CITRIC ACID), WATER, CANOLA OIL, RED BELL PEPPER, FIRE ROASTED SUPER SWEET CORN, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF CHEDDAR CHEESE (CULTURED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES), GREEN CHILI PEPPERS (GREEN CHILI PEPPERS, SALT, CITRIC ACID), ONION, GUAJILLO CHILI PEPPER BASE (WATER, GUAJILLO CHILI, ONION PUREE, SEA SALT, CANE SUGAR, SPICES, CILANTRO, GARLIC PUREE, SESAME SEEDS, PAPRIKA, CORN STARCH, CITRIC ACID), CHICKEN BASE (COOKED CHICKEN WITH NATURAL JUICES, SALT, MALTODEXTRIN, CHICKEN FAT, SUGAR, DRIED WHEY, NATURAL FLAVORING [DEHYDRATED ONION, SPICE EXTRACTIVES], TURMERIC), AMERICAN CHEESE SAUCE POWDER (CHEDDAR CHEESE [PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES, ANNATTO COLOR], WHEY, CANOLA OIL, NONFAT DRY MILK, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, SALT, BUTTER OIL, SUGAR, YEAST EXTRACT, PAPRIKA EXTRACT [COLOR], NATURAL FLAVORS, ANNATTO EXTRACT [COLOR]), FOOD STARCH-MODIFIED, JALAPENO PEPPERS (JALAPENO, SALT, ACETIC ACID, CALCIUM CHLORIDE), SODIUM CITRATE DIHYDRATE, CILANTRO, SALT, ANNATTO [COLOR].
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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 Starch, Canola Oil, Sugars, Soy Bean Oil, Vegetable Oil, Corn Oil, Oil, Corn, Maltodextrin, Modified Food Starch, Modified Starch (Corn), Citric Acid, and Sodium Citrates [read more]
Contains ingredients derived from wheat and milk - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
1.0 servings per container
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