Chorizo Sausage Egg & Cheese with Bell Peppers, Reduced Fat Cheddar Cheese & Sauce in a Flavor Blasted Crust Big&bold Breakfast

How it compares with other frozen breakfast sandwiches, biscuits and meals

Per 100 g, it has more sugar than 53% of the 892 frozen breakfast sandwiches, biscuits and meals products in USDA's branded database, and it has more sodium than 71% of them.

Where the calories come from: 53% carbohydrate, 35% fat and 12% protein (4 calories a gram of protein or carbohydrate, 9 of fat).

Other peppers in this aisle

59 of the 892 frozen breakfast sandwiches, biscuits and meals products are named peppers. Per 100 g their median is 157 calories, 366 mg of sodium and 8.1 g of protein; 53 have less sodium than this one.

What is in it

Ingredients (as submitted): ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), WATER, COOKED CHORIZO (PORK, SEASONING [SPICES, SALT, PAPRIKA, DEHYDRATED GARLIC, EXTRACTIVE OF PAPRIKA], WATER), COOKED SCRAMBLED EGGS (WHOLE EGGS, SKIM MILK, SOYBEAN OIL, CORN STARCH, SALT, XANTHAN GUM, CITRIC ACID), REDUCED FAT CHEDDAR CHEESE (PASTEURIZED PART SKIM MILK, SKIM MILK, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH*, CULTURES, SALT, FLAVORS*, POTASSIUM CHLORIDE*, ANNATTO, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, ENZYMES, *INGREDIENTS NOT IN REGULAR CHEDDAR CHEESE), MARGARINE (PALM OIL, WATER, SOYBEAN OIL, SUGAR, MONO & DIGLYCERIDES, SOYBEAN LECITHIN, POTASSIUM SORBATE AND CITRIC ACID [PRESERVATIVES], ANNATTO AND TURMERIC COLOR, VITAMIN A PALMITATE ADDED), 2% OR LESS OF ONIONS, RED BELL PEPPERS, FRACTIONATED PALM OIL, SUGAR, SEASONING (SALT, BREAD CRUMBS [BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, DEXTROSE, YEAST, SALT], CORN MALTODEXTRIN, BUTTERMILK SOLIDS, TOMATO POWDER, AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, WHITE VINEGAR POWDER, PEPPER SEASONING [RED PEPPERS, VINEGAR, SALT], SPICES, SODIUM DIACETATE, JALAPENO PEPPER, PAPRIKA EXTRACT, NATURAL FLAVORING, CITRIC ACID, HOT SAUCE [AGED CAYENNE RED PEPPER, VINEGAR, SALT, GARLIC]), MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, VEGETABLEOIL (SOYBEANOIL AND/OR CANOLA OIL), CILANTRO, MALTODEXTRIN, SALT, WHEY, DOUGH CONDITIONER BLEND (CALCIUM SULFATE, SALT, L-CYSTEINE HYDROCHLORIDE, GARLIC POWDER, TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE, ENZYMES [WHEAT]), BUTTERMILK POWDER, YEAST, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, SEASONING (DRIED WHEY, CHEDDAR CHEESE SOLIDS [CULTURED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES], MALTODEXTRIN, ENZYME MODIFIED CHEDDAR CHEESE, BUTTERMILK SOLIDS, FLAVORING, AUTOLYZED YEASTEXTRACT, SALT, DEXTRIN [CORN, TAPIOCA], 2% OR LESS OF ACETIC ACID, CALCIUM HYDROXIDE,CALCIUM LACTATE, CITRIC ACID, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, ENZYME MODIFIED MILK FAT, LACTIC ACID, MEDIUM CHAIN TRIGLYCERIDES, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, SODIUM HYDROXIDE), BLEACHED ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID) SODIUM CASEINATE, ANNATTO AND TURMERIC COLOR, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, LACTIC ACID BLEND (LACTICACID, CALCIUM LACTATE), METHYLCELLULOSE, SOY FLOUR, DRIED EGG WHITES NATURAL FLAVOR.

The statement lists 29 ingredients at the top level, beginning with Enriched Flour (wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, 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 3, 2023), not the label on the shelf today.

Source: the ingredient statement Nestle USA Inc. submitted to USDA (FoodData Central 2668992).

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