Italian Style Meatballs & Mozzarella with Reduced Fat Mozzarella Cheese & Sauce in a Seasoned Garlic Buttery Crust Sandwiches

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

Per 100 g, it has more sugar than 61% of the 4,401 frozen appetizers and hors d'oeuvres products in USDA's branded database, and it has more sodium than 51% of them.

Where the calories come from: 51% carbohydrate, 36% fat and 12% protein (4 calories a gram of protein or carbohydrate, 9 of fat).

Other sandwiches in this aisle

233 of the 4,401 frozen appetizers and hors d'oeuvres products are named sandwiches. Per 100 g their median is 248 calories, 476 mg of sodium and 9.9 g of protein; 125 have less sodium than this one.

What is in it

Ingredients (as submitted): ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), WATER, COOKED ITALIAN STYLE MEATBALL (PORK, WATER, TEXTURED VEGETABLE PROTEIN [SOY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, CARAMEL COLOR], BREADCRUMBS [BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, DEXTROSE, SALT, YEAST], LESS THAN 2% OF SPICES, PAPRIKA, SALT, POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, GARLIC POWDER, YEAST EXTRACT, NATURAL FLAVORINGS, SODIUM TRIPOLYPHOSPHATE), REDUCED FAT MOZZARELLA CHEESE (PASTEURIZED PART SKIM MILK, NONFAT MILK, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH*, CULTURES, SALT, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, ENZYMES, *INGREDIENTS NOT IN REGULAR MOZZARELLA CHEESE), TOMATO PASTE, VEGETABLE OIL (SOYBEAN OIL AND/OR CANOLA OIL), 2% OR LESS OF SUGAR, SALT, SEASONING (BREAD CRUMB [BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, DEXTROSE, YEAST, SALT], DRIED GARLIC, TOMATO POWDER, SPICE, SALT, DEXTROSE, DRIED ONION, MALTODEXTRIN, CITRIC ACID, NATURAL FLAVOR), FRACTIONATED PALM OIL, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, YEAST, DOUGH CONDITIONER BLEND (CALCIUM SULFATE, SALT, L-CYSTEINE HYDROCHLORIDE, GARLIC POWDER, TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE, ENZYMES [WHEAT]), ROMANO CHEESE WITH FLAVOR (ROMANO CHEESE [CULTURED COW'S MILK, SALT, ENZYMES), ENZYME MODIFIED ROMANO CHEESE [ROMANO CHEESE (CULTURED COW'S MILK, WATER, SALT, ENZYMES), SALT]), SOY LECITHIN, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, NATURAL FLAVOR, DRIED GARLIC, METHYLCELLULOSE, SPICE, FLAVOR (NATURAL GARLIC FLAVOR, DATEM, MEDIUM CHAIN TRIGLYCERIDES), DRIED ONIONS, WHEY, MALTODEXTRIN, POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, CITRIC ACID, SOY FLOUR, DRIED EGG WHITES.

The statement lists 28 ingredients at the top level, beginning with Enriched Flour (wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, 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 Apr 6, 2023), not the label on the shelf today.

Source: the ingredient statement Nestle USA Inc. submitted to USDA (FoodData Central 2679107).

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