Home Style Meals Swedish Meatballs

How it compares with other frozen dinners and entrees

Per 100 g, it has more sugar than 58% of the 4,995 frozen dinners and entrees products in USDA's branded database, and it has more sodium than 60% of them.

Where the calories come from: 39% carbohydrate, 42% fat and 19% protein (4 calories a gram of protein or carbohydrate, 9 of fat).

Other meatballs in this aisle

98 of the 4,995 frozen dinners and entrees products are named meatballs. Per 100 g their median is 154 calories, 355 mg of sodium and 8.1 g of protein; 42 have less sodium than this one.

What is in it

Ingredients (as submitted): COOKED ENRICHED PASTA (WATER, ENRICHED DURUM SEMOLINA [NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], WHEAT GLUTEN), COOKED SWEDISH STYLE MEATBALLS (BEEF, PORK, WATER, TEXTURED SOY PROTEIN [SOY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, CARAMEL COLOR], RICOTTA CHEESE [WHEY, MILK, CREAM, VINEGAR, AND XANTHAN GUM, LOCUST BEAN GUM, GUAR GUM, {STABILIZERS}], REHYDRATED POTATOES, BREAD CRUMBS [ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR {WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID}, SALT, YEAST], SALT, DRIED ONION, SOY PROTEIN ISOLATE, WHEAT FLOUR, SPICES, BARLEY FLOUR, TORULA YEAST, HYDROLYZED SOY PROTEIN, DRIED GARLIC, DRIED VINEGAR, SUGAR, DEXTROSE, DRIED PARSLEY, PAPRIKA, NATURAL FLAVOR, DRIED MOLASSES, DISODIUM INOSINATE AND DISODIUM GUANYLATE, CELLULOSE FIBER [BLENDING AID], SOY LECITHIN [PROCESSING AID]), WATER, HALF AND HALF (MILK, CREAM), SOUR CREAM (CULTURED CREAM, ENZYME), LESS THAN 2% OF NONFAT MILK SOLIDS (NONFAT MILK, WHEY SOLIDS [LACTOSE], VITAMIN A AND D3), ONIONS, CHEESE FLAVOR (ENZYME MODIFIED CHEESE AND BUTTER [CHEDDAR CHEESE {MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES}, BUTTER, CHEESE CULTURE, ENZYMES], WHEY, BUTTERMILK SOLIDS, SALT, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, LACTIC ACID), MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, BEEF BASE (ROASTED BEEF AND CONCENTRATED BEEF STOCK, SALT, HYDROLYZED SOY, CORN AND WHEAT PROTEIN, CORN OIL, SUGAR, AUTOLYZED YEAST, FLAVORING, MALTODEXTRIN, WHEY, DEXTROSE, CARAMEL COLOR), WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE (WATER, VINEGAR, SOY SAUCE [WATER, WHEAT, SOYBEANS, SALT], SUGAR, SALT, SPICES), DRY VERMOUTH WINE (WITH SALT, SORBATE, AND SULFITES), VEAL FLAVOR CONCENTRATE (VEAL STOCK CONCENTRATE, SALT, NATURAL FLAVOR, YEAST EXTRACT, CORN STARCH), CANOLA OIL, POT ROAST-TYPE FLAVOR (WATER, NATURAL FLAVOR, SALT, BEEF STOCK, BEEF FAT, AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, CORN STARCH, XANTHAN GUM), GRANULATED GARLIC, PAPRIKA, SUGAR, XANTHAN GUM, PARSLEY, SPICES.

The statement lists 21 ingredients at the top level, beginning with Cooked Enriched Pasta (water, Enriched Durum Semolina [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 Apr 16, 2018), not the label on the shelf today.

Source: the ingredient statement Overhill Farms, Inc. submitted to USDA (FoodData Central 2116675).

More Boston Market frozen dinners and entrees

Questions about this product