Bacon, Egg & Cheese Handmade Buttermilk Biscuit Melts, Bacon

How it compares with other frozen breakfast sandwiches, biscuits and meals

Per 100 g, it has more sugar than 53% of the 892 frozen breakfast sandwiches, biscuits and meals products in USDA's branded database, and it has more sodium than 97% of them.

Where the calories come from: 38% carbohydrate, 52% fat and 10% protein (4 calories a gram of protein or carbohydrate, 9 of fat).

Other bacon in this aisle

150 of the 892 frozen breakfast sandwiches, biscuits and meals products are named bacon. Per 100 g their median is 227 calories, 520 mg of sodium and 10.4 g of protein; 145 have less sodium than this one.

What is in it

Ingredients (as submitted): BISCUIT BASE (ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR BLEACHED [WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], CULTURED NONFAT DRY MILK, LEAVENING [BAKING SODA, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE], SOYBEAN OIL, PALM OIL, SALT, SUGAR, WHEAT STARCH, DRY BUTTERMILK, SODIUM CASEINATE, DRY WHEY, DATEM, MONO & DIGLYCERIDES, CALCIUM SULFATE, LOCUST BEAN GUM, GUAR GUM, SODIUM CITRATE, CARRAGEENAN, DEXTROSE, WATER, ENZYMES, DEXTRIN), WATER, PALM OIL WITH LECITHIN, COOKED SCRAMBLED EGGS (WHOLE EGGS, EGG YOLK, SOYBEAN OIL, GLYCERIN, DRIED WHOLE EGG, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SALT, MALTODEXTRIN, XANTHAN GUM), MEDIUM CHEDDAR CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES, ANNATTO [COLORING]), POTATO SHREDS, BACON SMOKE FLAVORING ADDED (CURED WITH WATER, SALT, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM NITRITE, SMOKE FLAVORING), CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF THE FOLLOWING: CHEESE SAUCE MIX (WHEY, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, CHEDDAR CHEESE [PASTEURIZED MILK, SALT, ANNATTO EXTRACT, CULTURE, ENZYMES], CANOLA OIL, NONFAT MILK, SALT, NATURAL FLAVORS, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR [CONTAINS NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID}, CITRIC ACID, MONOGLYCERIDES, DRIED ONION, SPICES AND SPICE EXTRACTIVES [INCLUDING ANNATTO AND PAPRIKA], XANTHAN GUM, TOCOPHEROLS), COUNTRY GRAVY MIX (CREAMER [PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, SODIUM CASEINATE, MONO- & DIGLYCERIDES, SODIUM CITRATE, SALT, DIPOTASSIUM PHOSPHATE, CARRAGEENAN, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR], MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, WHEAT FLOUR, SALT, RENDERED CHICKEN FAT, WHEY, CHICKEN BROTH, ONION, MALTODEXTRIN, GELATIN, SPICES AND SPICE EXTRACTIVES, HYDROLYZED SOY PROTEIN, TORULA YEAST), SWISS CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES), MODIFIED POTATO STARCH, SALT, BLACK PEPPER, ONION FLAVOR (NATURAL FLAVOR, DRIED ONION JUICE), VEGETABLE FLAVOR (MALTODEXTRIN, SUGAR, POTASSIUM LACTATE, FLAVORS, AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, LACTIC ACID, CITRIC ACID, PROPYLENE GLYCOL, ALGINATE, WHEAT FLOUR, SUCCINIC ACID).

The statement lists 15 ingredients at the top level, beginning with Biscuit Base (enriched Wheat Flour Bleached [wheat Flour, Niacin, Iron. It has no separate "Contains" line; a major allergen (the nine the FDA requires on labels: milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soybeans, sesame) may be named inside the ingredients instead. For allergies, read the package: this is the record USDA holds (updated May 7, 2020), not the label on the shelf today.

Source: the ingredient statement J&J Snack Foods Corp submitted to USDA (FoodData Central 2064497).

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