Creamy Rigatoni with Broccoli & Chicken Creamy Sauce & Pasta with Broccoli & White Chicken

How it compares with other frozen dinners and entrees

Per 100 g, it has more sugar than 29% of the 4,995 frozen dinners and entrees products in USDA's branded database, and it has more sodium than 39% of them.

Where the calories come from: 51% carbohydrate, 32% fat and 17% 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; 683 have less sodium than this one.

What is in it

Ingredients (as submitted): ENRICHED MACARONI PRODUCT (WATER, DURUM WHEAT SEMOLINA, WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), WATER, BROCCOLI, COOKED WHITE CHICKEN (CHICKEN BREAST WITH RIB MEAT, WATER, SOY PROTEIN ISOLATE, 2% OR LESS OF SALT, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, MALTODEXTRIN AND NATURAL FLAVOR), HALF AND HALF (MILK, CREAM), CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF NEUFCHATEL CHEESE (MILK, CREAM, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, CAROB BEAN GUM), WHITE CHEDDAR CLUB CHEESE (CHEDDAR CHEESE [CULTURED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES], WATER, SALT), MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SWEET DAIRY WHEY, CHICKEN FAT, GRATED CHEESE BLEND (PARMESAN AND ASIAGO CHEESES [PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES], NATURAL FLAVOR, POWDERED CELLULOSE [TO PREVENT CAKING]), MARGARINE (LIQUID AND HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, WATER, SALT, LESS THAN 2% OF VEGETABLE MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, SOY LECITHIN, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, BHA & BHT ADDED TO PROTECT FLAVOR, VITAMIN A PALMITATE AND VITAMIN D3 ADDED), ROMANO CHEESE BLEND (ROMANO CHEESE [PASTEURIZED COW'S MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES], NATURAL FLAVOR, POWDERED CELLULOSE [TO PREVENT CAKING]), SALT, CANOLA OIL, CHICKEN BASE (COOKED CHICKEN, RENDERED CHICKEN FAT, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, YEAST EXTRACT, WHEY [MILK], SALT, NATURAL FLAVORS, TURMERIC), CHEESE FLAVOR (PARMESAN CHEESE [PASTEURIZED MILK, CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES], WATER, SALT, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM CITRATE), MALTODEXTRIN, GRANULATED ONION, SPICES, YEAST EXTRACT (WITH SALT), XANTHAN GUM, DEXTROSE, GRANULATED GARLIC.

The statement lists 24 ingredients at the top level, beginning with Enriched Macaroni Product (water, Durum Wheat Semolina, Wheat Flour. 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 Aug 21, 2023), not the label on the shelf today.

Source: the ingredient statement Bellisio Foods Inc submitted to USDA (FoodData Central 2639080).

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