Chili's, Cheesy Chicken Pasta Florentine, Grilled White Chicken & Pasta with Black Beans and Corn in a Jalapeno Spinach Sauce

How it compares with other frozen dinners and entrees

Per 100 g, it has more sugar than 43% of the 4,995 frozen dinners and entrees products in USDA's branded database, and it has more sodium than 45% of them.

Where the calories come from: 41% carbohydrate, 33% fat and 26% protein (4 calories a gram of protein or carbohydrate, 9 of fat).

Other florentine in this aisle

33 of the 4,995 frozen dinners and entrees products are named florentine. Per 100 g their median is 124 calories, 271 mg of sodium and 6.8 g of protein; 20 have less sodium than this one.

What is in it

Ingredients (as submitted): COOKED ENRICHED MACARONI PRODUCT (WATER, DURUM SEMOLINA [ENRICHED WITH NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID]). COOKED CHICKEN BREAST STRIPS WITH RIB MEAT (BONELESS SKINLESS CHICKEN BREAST STRIPS WITH RIB MEAT, WATER, SEASONING [MALTODEXTRIN, SALT, SUGAR, CHICKEN STOCK, VEGETABLE STOCK {CARROT, ONION, CELERY}, FLAVORS, CARROT POWDER, GARLIC POWDER], MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, SOY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, SEA SALT), WATER, HALF AND HALF (MILK, CREAM), BLACK BEANS (WITH WATER), CORN, RED BELL PEPPERS, SPINACH, CREAM CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK AND CREAM, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, CAROB BEAN GUM), JALAPENO PEPPERS (WITH WATER, VINEGAR AND SALT), CHEDDAR CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES, ANNATTO [COLOR]), LESS THAN 2% OF LOW MOISTURE PART SKIM MOZZARELLA CHEESE (CHEESE [CULTURED PASTEURIZED PART SKIM MILK, SALT, ENZYMES], MODIFIED FOOD STARCH), PARMESAN CHEESE (PART SKIM MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), OLIVE OIL, ROMANO CHEESE (CULTURED PART SKIM COW'S MILK, SALT, ENZYMES), CHEESE FLAVOR (PARMESAN CHEESE [PASTEURIZED MILK, CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES], WATER, SALT, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM CITRATE), MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SALT, CANOLA OIL, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, YEAST EXTRACT, GRANULATED ONION, LEMON JUICE (WATER, LEMON JUICE CONCENTRATE, LEMON OIL), GRANULATED GARLIC, XANTHAN GUM, FLAVORING (ETHYL ALCOHOL, WATER, PROPYLENE GLYCOL,SALT), SPICES CITRIC ACID.

The statement lists 26 ingredients at the top level, beginning with Cooked Enriched Macaroni Product (water, Durum Semolina [enriched with Niacin, Ferrous Sulfate. 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 12, 2018), not the label on the shelf today.

Source: the ingredient statement Bellisio Foods Inc submitted to USDA (FoodData Central 2036142).

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