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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 28% of the Institute of Medicine's daily sodium (salt) recommendations based on adequate intake [read more]
Good source of naturally occurring calcium [read more]
Per gram, high in protein [read more]
This product contains added sugar ingredients: Sugars and Cane Sugar [read more]
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]
Contains 1 of EWG's top food additives of concern: Sodium Nitrite
Antibiotics were likely used in the production of this meat [read more]
Hormones and/or growth promoters were likely used in production of meat ingredients [read more]
Contains 1 ingredient(s) associated with cancer: Sodium Nitrite
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 higher concern
Contains 1 of EWG's top food additives of concern: Sodium Nitrite
Antibiotics were likely used in the production of this meat [read more]
Hormones and/or growth promoters were likely used in production of meat ingredients [read more]
Contains 28% of the Institute of Medicine's daily sodium (salt) recommendations based on adequate intake [read more]
Contains 1 ingredient(s) associated with cancer: Sodium Nitrite
Good source of naturally occurring calcium [read more]
Per gram, high in protein [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
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CHICKEN BREAST WITH RIB MEAT, MILK AND VITAMIN D3, PANKO BREAD CRUMBS (WHEAT FLOUR, CANE SUGAR, YEAST, SEA SALT), SWISS CHEESE (MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, ENZYMES, SALT), HAM (HAM CURED WITH WATER, SALT, SUGAR, SODIUM LACTATE, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, SODIUM DIACETATE, SODIUM ERYTHORBATE, SODIUM NITRITE), CREAM CHEESE (PASTEURIZED CULTURED MILK AND CREAM, SALT, GUAR GUM, CARO5 BEAN GUM), WATER, TEMPURA FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, RICE FLOUR, CORN STARCH, LEAVENING [SODIUM BICARBONATE, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE]), CHEDDAR CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), FOOD STARCH-MODIFIED, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF ROMANO CHEESE MADE FROM COW'S MILK (PASTEURIZED COW'S MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), PARMESAN CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), BUTTER (PASTEURIZED CREBRALT LIQUID WHOLE EGGS WITH CITRIC ACID (WHOLE EGG ACID [PRESERVATIVE], WATER), ENRICHED WHEAT FO FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRONINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), WHITE WINE (WINE, SALT, SULFITES), GARLIC, ONION, SEA SALT, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, GARLIC POWDER, SPICES, YELLOW CORN MEAL, TAPIOCA DEXTRIN, OLIVE OIL.
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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, Sugars, Modified Food Starch, and Citric Acid [read more]
Environmental Impact: Contains pork, which has a higher carbon footprint relative to chicken, eggs and plant proteins.
Environmental Impact: Contains eggs, which have a lower carbon footprint than meat.
Contains ingredients derived from wheat, milk or egg - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
3.0 servings per container
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