Baked Turkey Meatballs in a Crushed Tomato Basil Sauce Turkey Meatballs with Rigatoni and Vegetable Greens in a Marinara Sauce Delights

How it compares with other frozen dinners and entrees

Per 100 g, it has more sugar than 56% of the 4,995 frozen dinners and entrees products in USDA's branded database, and it has more sodium than 69% of them.

Where the calories come from: 49% carbohydrate, 30% fat and 21% protein (4 calories a gram of protein or carbohydrate, 9 of fat).

What is in it

Ingredients (as submitted): MARINARA SAUCE (CRUSHED TOMATOES IN PUREE [DICED TOMATOES, TOMATO PUREE], WATER, LEAFY GREENS [KALE, CHARD, SPINACH], ONIONS, OLIVE OIL, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: SUGAR, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, SALT, GARLIC, TOMATO PASTE, PARSLEY, BASIL, SPICE), COOKED ENRICHED RIGATONI PASTA (WATER, DURUM FLOUR [DURUM WHEAT SEMOLINA, NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE {IRON}, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], SOYBEAN OIL, DRIED EGG WHITES), TURKEY MEATBALLS (TURKEY MEAT, ONIONS, WHOLE EGGS, PARMESAN CHEESE [PASTEURIZED MILK, CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES, NATAMYCIN*], WATER, BREAD CRUMB [UNBLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, SUGAR, SALT, YEAST], GARLIC, SPICES, SALT), PART SKIM MOZZARELLA CHEESE (PASTEURIZED PART SKIM MILK, SKIM MILK, SALT, CULTURES, ENZYMES).

The statement lists 4 ingredients at the top level, beginning with Marinara Sauce (crushed Tomatoes in Puree [diced Tomatoes, Tomato Puree], Water. 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 29, 2023), not the label on the shelf today.

Source: the ingredient statement Marie Callender's Retail Foods submitted to USDA (FoodData Central 2573167).

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