Shrimp Scampi with Pasta Shrimp and Pasta in a Creamy Lemon Butter Sauce

How it compares with other frozen dinners and entrees

Per 100 g, it has more sugar than 53% of the 4,995 frozen dinners and entrees products in USDA's branded database, and it has more sodium than 16% of them.

Where the calories come from: 53% carbohydrate, 25% fat and 21% protein (4 calories a gram of protein or carbohydrate, 9 of fat).

Other sauce in this aisle

1,633 of the 4,995 frozen dinners and entrees products are named sauce. Per 100 g their median is 125 calories, 285 mg of sodium and 6.2 g of protein; 222 have less sodium than this one.

What is in it

Ingredients (as submitted): WATER, COOKED ENRICHED MACARONI PRODUCT (WATER, DURUM WHEAT SEMOLINA [ENRICHED WITH NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID]), SHRIMP (WITH SALT, SODIUM TRIPOLYPHOSPHATE), BUTTER FLAVOR BLEND (MALTODEXTRIN [FROM CORN], BUTTER [CREAM, SALT], NONFAT DRY MILK, BUTTERMILK, SALT, SOUR CREAM [CULTURED CREAM, NONFAT DRY MILK, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, LACTIC ACID, CITRIC ACID, COLOR [EXTRACTIVES OF ANNATTO AND TURMERIC]), NONFAT MILK SOLIDS (NONFAT MILK, WHEY SOLIDS [LACTOSE], VITAMIN A AND D3), UNSALTED BUTTER (CREAM, NATURAL FLAVOR), ROASTED GARLIC BASE (ROASTED GARLIC, SALT, CORN MALTODEXTRIN, NATURAL FLAVORINGS, CORNSTARCH, CANOLA OIL, SESAME OIL), MODIFIED CORN STARCH, ENRICHED BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), GREEN ONIONS, CORN MALTODEXTRIN, SHRIMP BASE (COOKED SHRIMP, SALT, UNSALTED BUTTER [CREAM, FLAVORINGS], POTATO FLOUR, FLAVORING, DRY WHEY, PAPRIKA), CHEESE FLAVOR (A DEHYDRATED BLEND OF PARMESAN CHEESE [PART-SKIM MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES], WHEY, BUTTERMILK SOLIDS, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, SALT), LEMON JUICE POWDER (CORN SYRUP, LEMON JUICE, LEMON OIL), CANOLA OIL, GRANULATED GARLIC, WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE POWDER (CORN MALTODEXTRIN, WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE [DISTILLED VINEGAR, MOLASSES, CORN SYRUP, SALT, CARAMEL COLOR, GARLIC POWDER, SUGAR, SPICES, TAMARIND, NATURAL FLAVOR, SULFITING AGENTS]), SPICES, YEAST EXTRACT, PAPRIKA, XANTHAN GUM, NON-DAIRY CREAMER (PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, SODIUM CASEINATE [A MILK DERIVATIVE], DIPOTASSIUM PHOSPHATE, MONO AND DIGLY-CERIDES, SODIUM HEXAMETAPHOSPHATE, SILICON DIOXIDE), CITRIC ACID, DISODIUM INOSINATE AND DISODIUM GUANYLATE (FLAVOR ENHANCERS).

The statement lists 4 ingredients at the top level, beginning with Water, Cooked Enriched Macaroni Product (water, Durum Wheat Semolina [enriched with 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 19, 2021), not the label on the shelf today.

Source: the ingredient statement Zatarain's Inc. submitted to USDA (FoodData Central 2680548).

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