El Charrito, Queso Enchilada Dinner, 2 Cheese Enchiladas in Chili Con Queso Sauce, Beans and Spanish Rice

How it compares with other frozen dinners and entrees

Per 100 g, it has more sugar than 18% 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: 71% carbohydrate, 17% fat and 12% protein (4 calories a gram of protein or carbohydrate, 9 of fat).

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33 of the 4,995 frozen dinners and entrees products are named dinner. Per 100 g their median is 137 calories, 295 mg of sodium and 7.1 g of protein; 21 have less sodium than this one.

What is in it

Ingredients (as submitted): ENCHILADAS:TORTILLA: CORN FLOUR (GROUND CORN, TRACE OF LIME), WATER. FILLING: WATER, DEHYDRATED CHEESE POWDER (CORN SYRUP, AMERICAN CHEESE [MILK, CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES], FOOD STARCH MODIFIED, WHEY, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED OIL COCONUT AND/OR SOYBEAN), BUTTER (MILK FAT), NONFAT MILK, BUTTERMILK. DI-SODIUM PHOSPHATES, SODIUM CASEINATE, MONO & DI-GLYCERIDES, CITRIC ACID, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, SODIUM CITRATE, DI-POTASSIUM PHOSPHATE, SALT, NATURAL FLAVOR, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL COLORS [ANNATTO, PAPRIKA, FD&C YELLOW #5, FD&C YELLOW #6, BETA CAROTENE] AND CARRAGEENAN), CHEDDAR CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES AND ANNATTO), MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: VINEGAR, DEHYDRATED ONION. QUESO GRAVY: WATER, CHEESE SAUCE (A DEHYDRATED BLEND OF FOOD STARCH MODIFIED, MALTODEXTRIN, WHEY, CHEESE [GRANULAR & BLUE {PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES}}, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, SALT, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, LACTOSE, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF SODIUM PHOSPHATE, CITRIC ACID, LACTIC ACID, TUMERIC [COLOR], YELLOW 6 LAKE), GREEN CHILES, BELL PEPPERS, TOMATOES (TOMATOES, CITRIC ACID), CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, DEHYDRATED ONION, SOYBEAN OIL, VINEGAR, FLAVORINGS, DEHYDRATED SOY SAUCE (FLAVOR [HYDROLYZED SOY PROTEIN, SALT, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS], YEAST EXTRACT, SOYBEAN OIL), JALAPENOS (JALAPENO PEPPERS, SALT, ACETIC ACID, WATER, CALCIUM CHLORIDE), SALT, CHICKEN FLAVOR BASE (SALT, MALTODEXTRIN, DEXTROSE, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SUGAR, DEHYDRATED ONION, YEAST EXTRACT, CORN OIL, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, CITRIC ACID), GUAR GUM. BEANS: WATER, BEANS, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: SHORTENING (REFINED, BLEACHED BEEF TALLOW, SOY-BEAN OIL AND/OR COTTONSEED OIL. BHT ADDED AS ANTIOXIDANT AND DIMETHYLPO-LYSILOXANE ADDED AS ANTIFOAMING AGENT), FLAVORINGS, VINEGAR, SALT, YEAST EXTRACT, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, CHILI POWDER (CHILI PEPPER, SALT, SPICES, GARLIC POWDER). SPANISH RICE: COOKED RICE (WATER, RICE), TOMATO PASTE, BELL PEPPERS, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: FLAVORINGS INCLUDING PAPRIKA, VINEGAR SOY-BEAN OIL DEHYDRATED ONION, CHICKEN FLAVOR BASE (SALT. MALTODEXTRIN, DEXTROSE, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SUGAR, DEHYDRATED ONION, YEAST EXTRACT, CORN OIL, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, CITRIC ACID), SALT. MODIFIED FOOD STARCH.

The statement covers several recipes in one package, so its ingredients are not counted. 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 Jul 1, 2018), not the label on the shelf today.

Source: the ingredient statement Don Miguel Mexican Foods, Inc. submitted to USDA (FoodData Central 2011175).

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