Chicken Taco Rice with White Meat Chicken, Corn, Tomatoes, Black Beans, and Jalapenos in a Salsa Con Queso Sauce Oven Bake Meals

How it compares with other frozen dinners and entrees

Per 100 g, it has more sugar than 59% of the 4,995 frozen dinners and entrees products in USDA's branded database, and it has more sodium than 67% of them.

Where the calories come from: 54% carbohydrate, 26% fat and 19% 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; 1,151 have less sodium than this one.

What is in it

Ingredients (as submitted): 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], 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, SEASONING [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% 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: JALAPENO PEPPERS, SOYBEAN OIL, SALT, NONFAT DRY MILK, CILANTRO, APPLE CIDER VINEGAR, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, CHIPOTLE CHILE, XANTHAN GUM, LOCUST BEAN GUM, GUAR GUM), COOKED WHITE RICE (WATER, WHITE RICE), 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 PHOSPHATES, FLAVORING), COOKED BLACK BEANS (BLACK BEANS, WATER), CORN, TOMATOES, JALAPENO PEPPERS.

The statement lists 19 ingredients at the top level, beginning with Sauce (water, Pasteurized Process Cheese Sauce Concentrate [milk, Palm Oil. 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 5, 2023), not the label on the shelf today.

Source: the ingredient statement Pinnacle Foods Group LLC submitted to USDA (FoodData Central 2572072).

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