Ham Croquettes

How it compares with other frozen appetizers and hors d'oeuvres

Per 100 g, none of the 4,401 frozen appetizers and hors d'oeuvres products in USDA's branded database has less sugar, and it has more sodium than 97% of them.

Where the calories come from: 35% carbohydrate, 46% fat and 19% protein (4 calories a gram of protein or carbohydrate, 9 of fat).

Other croquettes in this aisle

20 of the 4,401 frozen appetizers and hors d'oeuvres products are named croquettes. Per 100 g their median is 214 calories, 541 mg of sodium and 9.8 g of protein; 18 have less sodium than this one.

What is in it

Ingredients (as submitted): COOKED HAM WITH 35% ADDED SOLUTION (WATER, SALT, CONTAINS 2 % OR LESS OF THE FOLLOWING: VINEGAR, DEXTROSE, MODIFIED POTATO STARCH, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM ERYTHORBATE, SODIUM NITRITE, HONEY, SUGAR, SPICES [BROWN SUGAR, SUGAR, SPICE EXTRACTIVES], POTASSIUM AND/OR SODIUM LACTATE, SODIUM DIACETATE, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, POTASSIUM PHOSPHATE, BROWN SUGAR, LEMON JUICE, SMOKE FLAVORING AND CARAMEL COLOR), WATER, BREAD CRUMBS (ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR [FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY, NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, AND FOLIC ACID], HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CORN SYRUP, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL [SOYBEAN AND/OR COTTONSEED AND/OR CORN AND/OR CANOLA OILS], WATER, SALT, CONTAINS 2 PERCENT OR LESS OF YEAST, HONEY, MOLASSES, SUGAR, WHEAT GLUTEN, WHEY, SOY FLOUR, WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR, RYE FLOUR, CORN FLOUR, OAT BRAN, CORN MEAL, RICE FLOUR, POTATO FLOUR, BUTTER, DOUGH CONDITIONERS [MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, SODIUM AND/OR CALCIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, SOY LECITHIN, CALCIUM CARBONATE], YEAST NUTRIENTS [AMMONIUM SULFATE, CALCIUM SULFATE, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE], DISTILLED VINEGAR, SKIM MILK, BUTTERMILK, LACTIC ACID, CALCIUM PROPIONATE AS PRESERVATIVE, POTASSIUM SORBATE AS PRESERVATIVE, SESAME SEEDS, SUNFLOWER SEEDS, EGGS), ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID, ENZYME), LARD (BHA AND BHQ TO IMPROVE STABILITY), LARD, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, VEGETABLE OIL (SOY BEAN OIL PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED, TBHQ AND CITRIC ACID ADDED AS PRESERVATIVE), TEXTURIZED VEGETABLE PROTEIN, ONION, HAM FLAVOR (SALT, HYDROLYZED SOY PROTEIN, MALTODEXTRIN, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, SUGAR, NATURAL FLAVORS, ONION POWDER AND SILICON DIOXIDE AS ANTICAKING AGENT), MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, GARLIC POWDER, SALT, CORN STARCH, AND FOOD COLORING (WATER, PROPYLENE GLYCOL, RED # 40, RED#3, AND YELLOW # 6).

The statement lists 16 ingredients at the top level, beginning with Cooked Ham with 35% Added Solution (water, Salt, Contains 2 % or Less of the Following: Vinegar. 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 Jun 14, 2018), not the label on the shelf today.

Source: the ingredient statement Goya Foods, Inc. submitted to USDA (FoodData Central 2673550).

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