Buffalo-style Chicken Mac & Cheese Pasta in a Creamy Buffalo-style Cheese Sauce with White Meat Chicken Fritters Bowl, Buffalo-style Chicken Mac & Cheese

How it compares with other frozen dinners and entrees

Per 100 g, it has more sugar than 58% of the 4,995 frozen dinners and entrees products in USDA's branded database, and it has more sodium than 79% of them.

Where the calories come from: 43% carbohydrate, 40% fat and 17% protein (4 calories a gram of protein or carbohydrate, 9 of fat).

Other bowl in this aisle

473 of the 4,995 frozen dinners and entrees products are named bowl. Per 100 g their median is 118 calories, 268 mg of sodium and 6.2 g of protein; 442 have less sodium than this one.

What is in it

Ingredients (as submitted): CHEESE SAUCE (WATER, CHEDDAR CLUB CHEESE [PASTEURIZED CULTURED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES, ANNATTO], CAYENNE PEPPER SAUCE [AGED CAYENNE RED PEPPERS, DISTILLED VINEGAR, WATER, SALT, GARLIC POWDER], MALTODEXTRIN, SOYBEAN OIL, WHEY, NONFAT DRY MILK, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: CHEDDAR CHEESE FLAVOR [CHEDDAR CHEESE {PASTEURIZED MILK, CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES}, WATER, LACTIC ACID, YEAST EXTRACT, SALT, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM CITRATE, XANTHAN GUM], BUTTER FLAVOR [BUTTER {CREAM, SALT}, NATURAL FLAVOR], SALT, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, XANTHAN GUM, GUAR GUM, ANNATTO, CITRIC ACID), COOKED ENRICHED MACARONI PRODUCT (WATER, DURUM WHEAT SEMOLINA, NIACIN, IRON [FERROUS SULFATE], THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), WHITE MEAT CHICKEN FRITTER (WHITE MEAT CHICKEN, BATTER [WATER, BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, YELLOW CORN FLOUR, LEAVENING {SODIUM BICARBONATE, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE}, WHEY, SALT, EGGS, GUAR GUM], BREADER [ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR {ENRICHED WITH NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID}, SOYBEAN OIL, SALT, NATURAL FLAVOR], WATER, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, SALT, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, FRIED IN VEGETABLE OIL), PART SKIM MOZZARELLA CHEESE (PASTEURIZED PART SKIM MILK, SKIM MILK, SALT, CULTURES, ENZYMES), PARSLEY.

The statement lists 5 ingredients at the top level, beginning with Cheese Sauce (water, Cheddar Club Cheese [pasteurized Cultured Milk, Salt. 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 2600243).

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