Charbroiled Three-cheese Quesadilla Meal Served with Yellow Spanish Style Rice and Topped with a Creamy Queso Sauce

How it compares with other frozen dinners and entrees

Per 100 g, it has more sugar than 20% of the 4,995 frozen dinners and entrees products in USDA's branded database, and it has more sodium than 49% of them.

Where the calories come from: 41% carbohydrate, 45% fat and 14% protein (4 calories a gram of protein or carbohydrate, 9 of fat).

Other sauce in this aisle

1,633 of the 4,995 frozen dinners and entrees products are named sauce. Per 100 g their median is 125 calories, 285 mg of sodium and 6.2 g of protein; 875 have less sodium than this one.

What is in it

Ingredients (as submitted): CHEESE QUESADILLA (FLOUR TORTILLA [WATER, STONEGROUND WHOLE GRAIN CORN MASA {WITH CELLULOSE GUM, TRACE OF LIME}, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR {ENRICHED WITH NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID}, WHEAT GLUTEN, WHEAT STARCH, VEGETABLE OIL {SOYBEAN, CANOLA AND/OR CORN OIL}, SALT, DOUGH CONDITIONERS {YEAST, WHEAT GLUTEN, SUGAR, GUAR GUM, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH}], MONTEREY JACK CHEESE WITH PEPPERS [PASTEURIZED MILK, JALAPENO PEPPERS, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ACETIC ACID, CALCIUM CHLORIDE, ENZYMES], LOW MOISTURE MOZZARELLA CHEESE [PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES], GREEN CHILI PEPPERS [WITH SALT, CITRIC ACID, CALCIUM CHLORIDE], MONTEREY JACK CHEESE [PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES], WATER, RED BELL PEPPER, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, JALAPENO PEPPERS [JALAPENOS, SALT, ACETIC ACID]), COOKED RICE (WATER, RICE), WATER, BLACK BEANS, CANOLA OIL, RED BELL PEPPERS, CORN, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: CHEDDAR CHEESE (CULTURED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES), TOMATOES (TOMATOES, TOMATO JUICE, CITRIC ACID), GREEN CHILI PEPPERS (GREEN CHILI PEPPERS, SALT, CITRIC ACID), CHICKEN BASE (COOKED CHICKEN WITH NATURAL JUICES, SALT, MALTODEXTRIN, CHICKEN FAT, SUGAR, DRIED WHEY, NATURAL FLAVORING [DEHYDRATED ONION, SPICE EXTRACTIVES], TURMERIC), ONION, AMERICAN CHEESE SAUCE POWDER (CHEDDAR CHEESE [PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES, ANNATTO COLOR], WHEY, CANOLA OIL, NONFAT DRY MILK, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, SALT, BUTTER OIL, SUGAR, YEAST EXTRACT, PAPRIKA EXTRACT [COLOR], NATURAL FLAVORS, ANNATTO EXTRACT [COLOR]), FOOD STARCH-MODIFIED, JALAPENO PEPPERS (JALAPENO, SALT, ACETIC ACID, CALCIUM CHLORIDE), SODIUM CITRATE DIHYDRATE, TURMERIC [COLOR], ANNATTO EXTRACT COLOR, CILANTRO, SALT.

The statement lists 20 ingredients at the top level, beginning with Cheese Quesadilla (flour Tortilla [water, Stoneground Whole Grain Corn Masa {with Cellulose Gum, Trace of Lime}. 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 Mar 13, 2021), not the label on the shelf today.

Source: the ingredient statement Ruiz Food Products Inc submitted to USDA (FoodData Central 2469016).

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