Cajun-style Chicken Carbonara Seasoned White Meat Chicken and Linguine in a Creamy Bacon and Parmesan Flavored Sauce with a Cajun-style Twist, Cajun-style Chicken Carbonara

How it compares with other frozen dinners and entrees

Per 100 g, it has more sugar than 75% of the 4,995 frozen dinners and entrees products in USDA's branded database, and it has more sodium than 68% of them.

Where the calories come from: 46% carbohydrate, 35% fat and 19% protein (4 calories a gram of protein or carbohydrate, 9 of fat).

What is in it

Ingredients (as submitted): ENRICHED MACARONI PRODUCT (DURUM WHEAT SEMOLINA, IRON, NIACIN, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), WATER, BLACKENED SEASONED GRILLED CHICKEN TENDERS (CHICKEN TENDERS, WATER, BLACKENED SEASONING [SALT, SPICES {INCLUDING RED PEPPER AND PAPRIKA}, SOY PROTEIN ISOLATE, MODIFIED POTATO STARCH, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, CORN STARCH, ONION, CARRAGEENAN, GARLIC, EXTRACTIVES OF OREGANO, SOY LECITHIN]), HALF AND HALF (MILK, CREAM), SWEET DAIRY WHEY, CREAM CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK AND CREAM, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, CAROB BEAN GUM), FULLY COOKED BACON (BACON [CURED WITH WATER, SALT, SUGAR, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, SODIUM ERYTHORBATE, SODIUM NITRITE]), RENDERED BACON FAT, HEAVY CREAM SAUCE (SHORTENING POWDER [SOYBEAN OIL, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, SODIUM CASEINATE, MONO & DIGLYCERIDES], MALTODEXTRIN, SWEET CREAM SOLIDS, SALT, SUGAR, GARLIC POWDER, LEMON JUICE POWDER [CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, LEMON JUICE, LEMON OIL], NATURAL BUTTER FLAVOR), MARGARINE (LIQUID AND HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, WATER, SALT, VEGETABLE MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, SOY LECITHIN, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, BHA & BHT ADDED TO PROTECT FLAVOR, VITAMIN A PALMITATE AND VITAMIN D3 ADDED), CHEESE FLAVOR (A DEHYDRATED BLEND OF ROMANO CHEESE [PART-SKIM COW'S MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES], SODIUM PHOSPHATE), DRY BUTTERMILK, CHEESE FLAVOR (A DEHYDRATED BLEND OF PARMESAN CHEESE [PART-SKIM MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES], WHEY, BUTTERMILK SOLIDS, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, SALT), MODIFIED CORN STARCH, GREEN ONION, SEA SALT, CORN MALTODEXTRIN, CANOLA OIL, YEAST EXTRACT, SPICES (INCLUDING RED PEPPER, WHITE PEPPER), GRANULATED GARLIC, XANTHAN GUM, CHILI POWDER (CHILI PEPPERS, SPICES, SALT, GARLIC POWDER), GRANULATED ONION, PAPRIKA.

The statement lists 25 ingredients at the top level, beginning with Enriched Macaroni Product (durum Wheat Semolina, Iron, Niacin. 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 Jan 19, 2021), not the label on the shelf today.

Source: the ingredient statement Zatarain's Inc. submitted to USDA (FoodData Central 2680502).

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