Cheesy Buffalo Style Chicken Pasta with White Meat Chicken, Broccoli, and Carrots in a Cheesy Buffalo Style Sauce Skillet Meals

How it compares with other frozen dinners and entrees

Per 100 g, it has more sugar than 64% of the 4,995 frozen dinners and entrees products in USDA's branded database, and it has more sodium than 85% of them.

Where the calories come from: 51% carbohydrate, 26% fat and 23% protein (4 calories a gram of protein or carbohydrate, 9 of fat).

Other chicken in this aisle

1,702 of the 4,995 frozen dinners and entrees products are named chicken. Per 100 g their median is 129 calories, 295 mg of sodium and 7 g of protein; 1,445 have less sodium than this one.

What is in it

Ingredients (as submitted): COOKED ENRICHED ROTINI PASTA (WATER, ENRICHED PASTA [DURUM WHEAT SEMOLINA, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID]), CHEESY BUFFALO STYLE SAUCE (WATER, PASTEURIZED PROCESS CHEESE SAUCE CONCENTRATE [MILK, PALM OIL, WHEY, WATER, MALTODEXTRIN, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF: CHEESE CULTURE, CITRIC ACID, ENZYMES, LACTIC ACID, SALT, SODIUM ALGINATE, SUGAR, XANTHAN GUM], CAYENNE PEPPER SAUCE [AGED CAYENNE RED PEPPERS, DISTILLED VINEGAR, WATER, SALT, GARLIC POWDER], THREE CHEESE SEASONING [CHEESE POWDER {CHEDDAR, MONTEREY JACK AND PARMESAN CHEESES (CULTURED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES)}, WHEY, SALT, PALM OIL BLEND {PALM OIL, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, SODIUM CASEINATE, DIPOTASSIUM PHOSPHATE, MONOGLYCERIDES}, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, MALTODEXTRIN, NATURAL FLAVORS {BUTTERMILK SOLIDS AND ENZYME MODIFIED CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES)}, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR {BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, ENZYME, FOLIC ACID}, AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, ONION POWDER, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF: BUTTER, SODIUM CASEINATE, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, GARLIC POWDER, LACTIC ACID, SPICES, PAPRIKA EXTRACT, TURMERIC EXTRACT, ANNATTO EXTRACT, CITRIC ACID], MODIFIED CORN STARCH, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF: DISTILLED VINEGAR, SALT, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE), VEGETABLES (BROCCOLI, CARROTS), COOKED CHICKEN (WHITE MEAT CHICKEN, WATER, OLIVE OIL, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: ISOLATED SOY PROTEIN PRODUCT [ISOLATED SOY PROTEIN, MODIFIED POTATO STARCH, CORN STARCH, CARRAGEENAN, SOY LECITHIN], DEXTROSE, POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, SALT, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, FLAVORING).

The statement lists 4 ingredients at the top level, beginning with Cooked Enriched Rotini Pasta (water, Enriched Pasta [durum Wheat Semolina, 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 28, 2022), not the label on the shelf today.

Source: the ingredient statement Pinnacle Foods Group LLC submitted to USDA (FoodData Central 2273813).

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