Chicken Parmesan Lightly Breaded All-white Meat Chicken On a Bed of Fresh Pasta in a Rich Marinara Sauce

How it compares with other frozen dinners and entrees

Per 100 g, it has more sugar than 74% of the 4,995 frozen dinners and entrees products in USDA's branded database, and it has more sodium than 37% of them.

Where the calories come from: 56% carbohydrate, 27% fat and 18% 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; 666 have less sodium than this one.

What is in it

Ingredients (as submitted): WATER, ENRICHED MACARONI PRODUCT (WATER, DURUM WHEAT SEMOLINA [ENRICHED WITH NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID]), COOKED BREADED CHICKEN BREAST PATTY WITH RIB MEAT (CHICKEN BREAST WITH RIB MEAT, WATER, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR [WHEAT FLOUR, WHEAT STARCH, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], ENRICHED BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, WHEAT STARCH, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF ISOLATED SOY PROTEIN, SALT, CORN STARCH, DEXTROSE, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, TAPIOCA DEXTRIN, WHEAT GLUTEN, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, SEASONING [YEAST EXTRACT, SALT, SOY SAUCE SOLIDS {SOYBEANS, WHEAT, SALT}, SUGAR, MALTODEXTRIN {CORN}, CHICKEN POWDER, FLAVOR, VEGETABLE OIL, CHICKEN BROTH, TAPIOCA STARCH, THIAMINE HYDROCHLORIDE, LACTIC ACID, CITRIC ACID, CHICKEN FAT], SOYBEAN OIL, GARLIC POWDER, SPICE, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, LEAVENING [SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE], SODIUM BICARBONATE, EXTRACTIVES OF PAPRIKA, YEAST, MALT SYRUP), TOMATO PASTE, TOPPING BLEND (IMITATION MOZZARELLA [WATER, PALM OIL, MODIFIED POTATO STARCH, RENNET CASEIN, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, SODIUM CITRATE, SALT, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, NATURAL FLAVOR, CARRAGEENAN, LACTIC ACID, ARTIFICIAL COLOR], MOZZARELLA (PASTEURIZED CULTURED REDUCED FAT MILK, SALT, ENZYMES]), CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF SUGAR, CANOLA OIL, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, GRANULATED ONION, GRANULATED GARLIC, SALT, SPICES. XANTHAN GUM, YEAST EXTRACT.

The statement lists 13 ingredients at the top level, beginning with Water, Enriched Macaroni Product (water, Durum Wheat Semolina [enriched with 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 Oct 6, 2023), not the label on the shelf today.

Source: the ingredient statement Overhill Farms, Inc. submitted to USDA (FoodData Central 2667216).

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