Bacon Mac ‘n cheese
Bacon Mac ‘n cheese by Banquet Mega Bowls has 4 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is C, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.
- Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Frozen foods / Meals / Combination Meals / Frozen ready-made meals / Vegetable based frozen ready-made meals
How This Score Is Built
This 1-5 scale is an editorially-derived index, not an official government rating -- it synthesizes FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research. For Bacon Mac ‘n cheese, 4 of its 4 tracked ingredients carry a scored rating so far, current as of 2026-09-07.
Data draws on Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records -- cross-check with the FDA → directly, or read how we score it.
Where Bacon Mac ‘n cheese sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4 Top 80% higher than 20% of 58,710 scored products
Average ingredient safety score (1 = highest risk, 5 = safest), bucketed by value
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Source PlainIngredients ingredient safety index · 2026-09-07
- Sodium Phosphates - Safety score: 2/5
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
Ultra-processed products are formulations made mostly or entirely from substances derived from foods and additives. They typically contain ingredients not commonly used in home cooking.
Full Ingredients List
Water, pasteurized processed cheese spread (cheddar and colby cheese, milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, whey, sodium phosphate, whey protein concentrate, skim milk, milkfat, carrageenan, cellulose gum), modified corn starch, soybean oil, nonfat dry milk, salt, sodium phosphates, xanthan gum, citric acid, guar gum, ground white pepper, natural smoke flavor, cooked enriched cavatappi pasta (water, enriched pasta [durum wheat semolina, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid]), part skim mozzarella cheese (pasteurized part skim milk, skim milk, salt, cultures, enzymes), bacon (cured with water, salt, sodium phosphates, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite, may contain sugar, brown sugar, and/or smoke flavor), green onions.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Bacon Mac ‘n cheese: nearest mean mapped additive safety score and nearest mapped ingredient count among indexable products with at least 3 scored additives, excluding same-brand siblings. Scores describe regulatory and research signals on additives, not dietary advice.
Similar mean additive safety
Nearest products by average mapped safety score. This record: 4/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 4.
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Product Details
- Brand
- Banquet Mega Bowls
- Barcode
- 0031000009793
- Nutri-Score
- Grade C
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Bacon Mac ‘n cheese's safety score compare to other products?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Bacon Mac ‘n cheese's 4/5 average puts it in the lower 80%, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 4/5 rating on Bacon Mac ‘n cheese?
PlainIngredients scores each ingredient 1 (highest risk) to 5 (safest) from FDA and EU regulatory status, then averages the scores of every ingredient this product lists that we could map. A 4/5 average places Bacon Mac ‘n cheese in the Low Risk tier.
Every figure on PlainIngredients is rendered directly from FDA, EU, EFSA and U.S. state regulatory records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.