Meatballs & Mozzarella Italian-style Meatballs Layered with Melted Mozzarella Cheese & Garlic Tomato Sauce in a Crispy Seasoned Crust Stuffed Sandwiches

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

Per 100 g, it has more sugar than 71% of the 4,401 frozen appetizers and hors d'oeuvres products in USDA's branded database, and it has more sodium than 21% 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; 24 have less sodium than this one.

What is in it

Ingredients (as submitted): UNBLEACHED ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), WATER, COOKED ITALIAN STYLE MEATBALL (PORK, WATER, TEXTURED VEGETABLE PROTEIN [SOY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, CARAMEL COLOR], SEASONING [SALT, SPICES, PAPRIKA, SUGAR, GARLIC POWDER, NATURAL FLAVOR, DISODIUM INOSINATE, DISODIUM GUANYLATE], BREAD CRUMBS [ENRICHED FLOUR {FLOUR, NIACIN, IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID}, CORN SYRUP, SUGAR, HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL {SOYBEAN AND COTTONSEED}, SALT, YEAST, SOY FLOUR, WHEY, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, CALCIUM PROPIONATE {PRESERVATIVE}], SALT, SODIUM TRIPOLYPHOSPHATE), TOMATO PASTE, PART SKIM MOZZARELLA CHEESE WITH MODIFIED FOOD STARCH (PART SKIM MOZZARELLA CHEESE [PASTEURIZED MILK, CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES], MODIFIED FOOD STARCH), MOZZARELLA CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, NON FAT MILK, CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF: FULLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, PALM OIL (WITH SOY LECITHIN, NATURAL FLAVORS, BETA CAROTENE), SUGAR, FULLY HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL (WITH SOY LECITHIN), SEASONED BREAD CRUMBS (ENRICHED FLOUR [WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], DEHYDRATED GARLIC, TOMATO POWDER, SPICE, SALT, DEXTROSE, ONION POWDER, MALTODEXTRIN, DEHYDRATED PARSLEY, CORN SYRUP, SUGAR, CITRIC ACID, YEAST, SODIUM STEAROLYL LACTYLATE, CALCIUM PROPIONATE [PRESERVATIVE]), DOUGH CONDITIONERS (CALCIUM SULFATE, SALT, L-CYSTEINE HYDROCHLORIDE, DEODORIZED GARLIC POWDER, TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE, FUNGAL ENZYMES, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, WHEY, ETHOXYLATED MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, WHEAT FLOUR), SEASONING (GARLIC POWDER, SUGAR, SPICES, SALT, ONION POWDER, CITRIC ACID), ROMANO CHEESE (PASTEURIZED PART-SKIM COW'S MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES), MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, DRIED EGG YOLKS, SALT, YEAST, DRIED WHEY, SOY FLOUR, DRIED EGG WHITES, POWDERED CELLULOSE.

The statement lists 22 ingredients at the top level, beginning with Unbleached 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 Jan 9, 2020), not the label on the shelf today.

Source: the ingredient statement Topco Associates, Inc. submitted to USDA (FoodData Central 1555469).

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