Spicy Chicken Alfredo Pasta with a Spicy Alfredo Sauce & White Chicken

How it compares with other frozen dinners and entrees

Per 100 g, it has more sugar than 43% of the 4,995 frozen dinners and entrees products in USDA's branded database, and it has more sodium than 69% of them.

Where the calories come from: 47% carbohydrate, 35% fat and 18% protein (4 calories a gram of protein or carbohydrate, 9 of fat).

Other chicken in this aisle

1,702 of the 4,995 frozen dinners and entrees products are named chicken. Per 100 g their median is 129 calories, 295 mg of sodium and 7 g of protein; 1,175 have less sodium than this one.

What is in it

Ingredients (as submitted): ENRICHED PASTA (WATER, ENRICHED DURUM SEMOLINA [NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], WHEAT GLUTEN), WATER, HALF AND HALF (MILK, CREAM), COOKED WHITE CHICKEN (CHICKEN BREAST WITH RIB MEAT, WATER, SOY PROTEIN ISOLATE, 2% OR LESS OF SALT, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, MALTODEXTRIN AND NATURAL FLAVOR), NEUFCHATEL CHEESE (MILK, CREAM, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, CAROB BEAN GUM), WHITE CHEDDAR CLUB CHEESE (CHEDDAR CHEESE [CULTURED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES], WATER, SALT), CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, GRATED CHEESE BLEND (PARMESAN AND ASIAGO CHEESES [PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES], NATURAL FLAVOR, POWDERED CELLULOSE [TO PREVENT CAKING]), MARGARINE (LIQUID AND HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, WATER, SALT, LESS THAN 2% OF VEGETABLE MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, SOY LECITHIN, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, BHA & BHT ADDED TO PROTECT FLAVOR, VITAMIN A PALMITATE AND VITAMIN D3 ADDED), SWEET DAIRY WHEY, ROMANO CHEESE BLEND (ROMANO CHEESE [PASTEURIZED COW'S MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES], NATURAL FLAVOR, POWDERED CELLULOSE [TO PREVENT CAKING]), SALT, CANOLA OIL, CHEESE FLAVOR (PARMESAN CHEESE [PASTEURIZED MILK, CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES], WATER, SALT, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM CITRATE), MALTODEXTRIN, SPICES, XANTHAN GUM, PARSLEY, CHILI POWDER (CHILI PEPPER, SALT, SPICES, SILICON DIOXIDE, GARLIC POWDER, ETHOXYQUIN), YEAST EXTRACT (WITH SALT), DEXTROSE, PAPRIKA, GRANULATED ONION, GRANULATED GARLIC.

The statement lists 24 ingredients at the top level, beginning with 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 Aug 21, 2023), not the label on the shelf today.

Source: the ingredient statement Bellisio Foods Inc submitted to USDA (FoodData Central 2639068).

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