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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: Corn Oil [read more]
Contains 53% of the Institute of Medicine's daily sodium (salt) recommendations based on adequate intake [read more]
Good source of naturally occurring calcium [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 3 of EWG's top food additives of concern: Sodium Nitrite, BHT, and BHA
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 synthetic food dyes [read more]
Contains 1 ingredient(s) associated with cancer: Sodium Nitrite
This product has 15 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 higher concern
Contains 3 of EWG's top food additives of concern: Sodium Nitrite, BHT, and BHA
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 ingredients that may contribute small amounts of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Corn Oil [read more]
Contains synthetic food dyes [read more]
Contains the non-specific ingredient "flavor" [read more]
Contains 53% 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]
Product has been classified as having high processing concerns
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MACARONI AND CHEESE SAUCE: CHEESE SAUCE (WATER, CHEDDAR CLUB CHEESE [PASTEURIZED CULTURED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES, ANNATTO {COLOR}], MODIFIED WHEY, SOYBEAN OIL, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, NONFAT DRY MILK, CHEDDAR CHEESE FLAVOR [CHEDDAR CHEESE {PASTEURIZED MILK, CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES}, WATER, LACTIC ACID, YEAST EXTRACT, SALT, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM CITRATE, XANTHAN GUM, SALT, SUGAR, POTASSIUM CITRATE, XANTHAN GUM, CITRIC ACID, GUAR GUM, SUNFLOWER OIL, BETA CAROTENE [COLOR]), COOKED ENRICHED MACARONI (WATER, ENRICHED MACARONI [DURUM WHEAT SEMOLINA, NIACIN, IRON {FERROUS SULFATE}, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID]]. PIZZA: CRUST (ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR [WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR], WATER, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: DEXTROSE, VITAL WHEAT GLUTEN, BAKING POWDER [SODIUM BICARBONATE, CORNSTARCH, SODIUM ALUMINUM SULFATE, CALCIUM SULFATE, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE], SOYBEAN OIL, SALT, YEAST BLEND [YEAST, SORBITAN MONOSTEARATE, MAY CONTAIN ASCORBIC ACID], DOUGH CONDITIONER [WHEAT FLOUR, SALT, SOY OIL, L CYSTEINE, ASCORBIC ACID, ENZYME], ASCORBIC ACID, SOY FLOUR, CELLULOSE, CORN STARCH, DICALCIUM PHOSPHATE, CITRIC ACID, SODIUM BICARBONATE, CALCIUM STEARATE), SAUCE (WATER, TOMATO PASTE, SEASONING [SALT, SUGAR, ONION POWDER, SPICES, XANTHAN AND GUAR GUM, GARLIC POWDER, 2% OR LESS OF: POTASSIUM SORBATE, CITRIC ACID, PROPYLENE GLYCOL], MODIFIED CORN STARCH), MOZZARELLA CHEESE SUBSTITUTE (WATER, CORN OIL AND/OR SOYBEAN OIL, CASEIN, MODIFIED POTATO STARCH, WHEY, NONFAT DRY MILK, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: NATURAL FLAVOR, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, SALT, LACTIC ACID, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, CITRIC ACID, TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE, SORBIC ACID, MAGNESIUM OXIDE, DICALCIUM PHOSPHATE, ZINC OXIDE, IRON, RIBOFLAVIN [VITAMIN B2], PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE [VITAMIN B6], CYANOCOBALAMIN [VITAMIN B12], NIACINAMIDE [VITAMIN B3], THIAMINE MONONITRATE [VITAMIN B1], VITAMIN A PALMITATE), XANTHAN GUM), DICED FAT REDUCED PEPPERONI (PORK, BEEF, WATER, TEXTURED VEGETABLE PROTEIN PRODUCT* [SOY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, ZINC OXIDE, NIACINAMIDE, FERROUS SULFATE, COPPER GLUCONATE, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, CALCIUM PANTOTHENATE, THIAMINE MONONITRATE {B1}, PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE {B6}, RIBOFLAVIN {B2}, AND CYANOCOBALAMIN {B12}], SALT, LESS THAN 2% OF: SPICES, DEXTROSE, LACTIC ACID STARTER CULTURE, OLEORESIN PAPRIKA, FLAVORING, SODIUM NITRITE, BHA, BHT, CITRIC ACID].
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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This product contains the following ingredient(s) that may be genetically engineered or derived from GE crops: Corn Starch, Sugars, Dextrose, Soy Flour, Textured Vegetable Protein, Corn Oil, Xanthan Gum, Modified Starch (Corn), Lactic Acid, Potassium Citrate, Citric Acid, Sodium Citrates, and Soy Protein [read more]
Environmental Impact: Contains beef, which has a high carbon footprint relative to other protein sources. [read more]
Environmental Impact: Contains pork, which has a higher carbon footprint relative to chicken, eggs and plant proteins.
Contains ingredients derived from milk, wheat, soybean or egg - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
1.0 servings per container
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