Chicken with Poblano Sauce White Meat Chicken with Penne Pasta in a Creamy Poblano Sauce

How it compares with other frozen dinners and entrees

Per 100 g, it has more sugar than 27% of the 4,995 frozen dinners and entrees products in USDA's branded database, and it has more sodium than 57% of them.

Where the calories come from: 50% carbohydrate, 21% fat and 29% 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; 1,023 have less sodium than this one.

What is in it

Ingredients (as submitted): COOKED PENNE PASTA (WATER, ENRICHED SEMOLINA [DURUM SEMOLINA, NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], CARRAGEENAN), CREAMY POBLANO SAUCE (WATER, HALF & HALF [CREAM, MILK], POBLANO PEPPERS, ONION, CHABLIS COOKING WINE [WINE, SALT], CHICKEN BASE [CHICKEN MEAT INCLUDING CHICKEN JUICES, SALT, CHICKEN FAT, SUGAR, MALTODEXTRIN, HYDROLYZED CORN GLUTEN, DRIED WHEY, NATURAL FLAVORS, YEAST EXTRACT, TURMERIC {COLOR}], MODIFIED CORN STARCH, SOYBEAN OIL, GARLIC [CITRIC ACID], FLAVORING [HYDROLYZED CORN GLUTEN, HYDROLYZED WHEAT GLUTEN, YEAST EXTRACT, SOYBEAN OIL], SPICE), COOKED WHITE MEAT CHICKEN (CHICKEN BREAST WITH RIB MEAT, WATER, SOYBEAN OIL, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, FLAVORING [DEXTROSE, SALT, CORN OIL, SOY SAUCE {WATER, WHEAT, SOYBEANS, SALT}, TOMATO PUREE, XANTHAN GUM AND LOCUST BEAN GUM, POTATO STARCH, EXTRACTIVES OF PAPRIKA, NATURAL FLAVORING], MILK PROTEIN CONCENTRATE [SODIUM CASEINATE AND WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE], SODIUM PHOSPHATES, CHICKEN BASE [CHICKEN MEAT INCLUDING CHICKEN JUICES, SALT, CHICKEN FAT, SUGAR, MALTODEXTRIN, HYDROLYZED CORN GLUTEN, DRIED WHEY, NATURAL FLAVORS, YEAST EXTRACT, TURMERIC {COLOR}], LACTIC ACID), MOZZARELLA CHEESE (PASTEURIZED CULTURED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES), REDUCED FAT CHEDDAR CHEESE (PASTEURIZED LOW FAT MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES, ANNATTO [COLOR], VITAMIN A PALMITATE), CHIVES, PAPRIKA (ETHOXYQUIN TO PRESERVE COLOR).

The statement lists 7 ingredients at the top level, beginning with Cooked Penne Pasta (water, Enriched Semolina [durum 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 Apr 8, 2020), not the label on the shelf today.

Source: the ingredient statement Glencourt Inc. submitted to USDA (FoodData Central 2113748).

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