Hot Honey Fried Chicken Glazed in a Honey Hot Pepper Sauce with Pepper Jack Mac & Cheese

How it compares with other frozen dinners and entrees

Per 100 g, it has more sugar than 92% of the 4,995 frozen dinners and entrees products in USDA's branded database, and it has more sodium than 88% of them.

Where the calories come from: 48% carbohydrate, 34% fat and 19% protein (4 calories a gram of protein or carbohydrate, 9 of fat).

Other cheese in this aisle

1,191 of the 4,995 frozen dinners and entrees products are named cheese. Per 100 g their median is 156 calories, 319 mg of sodium and 7.1 g of protein; 1,039 have less sodium than this one.

What is in it

Ingredients (as submitted): COOKED GEMELLI PASTA (WATER, DURUM WHEAT SEMOLINA [ENRICHED WITH IRON, NIACIN, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], WATER, BREADED CHICKEN BREAST CHUNKS WITH RIB MEAT (CHICKEN BREAST MEAT WITH RIB MEAT, WATER, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR [WHEAT FLOUR NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], BLEACHED ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR [WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], SALT. YELLOW CORN FLOUR, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, DEXTROSE, SOY FLOUR, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, LEAVENING [SODIUM BICARBONATE, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE], NONFAT DRY MILK, WHEAT GLUTEN, GARLIC POWDER, ONION POWDER, SPICES, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, EXTRACTIVES OF PAPRIKA, CARRAGEENAN), HALF AND HALF (MILK, CREAM), HONEY, PASTEURIZED PROCESS HOT PEPPER JACK CHEESE FOOD (CULTURED MILK, WATER, SKIM MILK, WHEY, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, RED AND GREEN JALAPENO PEPPERS, CREAM, SALT, NATURAL FLAVOR, ENZYMES), CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF PASTEURIZED PROCESS MONTEREY JACK CHEESE CULTURED MILK, WATER, MILKFAT, SKIM MILK, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, SALT, ENZYMES), WHITE CHEDDAR CLUB CHEESE (CHEDDAR CHEESE [CULTURED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES], WATER, SALT), MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, POBLANO PEPPERS, RED BELL PEPPERS, CAYENNE PEPPER SAUCE (CAYENNE RED PEPPERS, VINEGAR, WATER, SALT, GARLIC POWDER), SALT. CANOLA OIL, APPLE CIDER VINEGAR, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, CHEESE FLAVOR (PARMESAN CHEESE [PASTEURIZED MILK, CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES], WATER, SALT, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM CITRATE), XANTHAN GUM, OLEORESIN PAPRIKA (EXTRACTIVES OF PAPRIKA AND NATURAL FLAVORS), SPICE.

The statement lists 13 ingredients at the top level, beginning with Cooked Gemelli Pasta (water, Durum Wheat Semolina [enriched with Iron, 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 12, 2023), not the label on the shelf today.

Source: the ingredient statement Overhill Farms, Inc. submitted to USDA (FoodData Central 2667224).

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