Cheesy Chicken & Rice
Cheesy Chicken & Rice by Marie Callender's 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
How This Score Is Built
PlainIngredients safety scores are a transparent, editorially-derived index synthesizing FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research into a single 1-5 scale, not an official government rating. 4 of 4 ingredients tracked for Cheesy Chicken & Rice have a scored rating so far. Data current as of 2026-09-07.
Sourced from Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records. Verify with the FDA → See our full scoring methodology.
Where Cheesy Chicken & Rice 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
Cheese sauce (water, cheddar cheese [pasteurized cultured milk, salt, enzymes, annatto], chardonnay wine, butter [cream, salt], modified corn starch, cheese flavor [whey, cheese {granular and blue (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzyme)}, sunflower oil, maltodextrin, salt, sodium phosphate, citric acid, lactic acid], soybean oil, contains 2% or less of: nonfat dry milk, enzyme modified cheese [cheddar and colby cheese {pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes}, water, lactic acid, yeast extract, sodium citrate, sodium phosphate, salt, enzymes], salt, sodium phosphates, xanthan gum, guar gum, beta carotene), cooked rice (water, white rice), cooked chicken (chicken breast, water, olive oil, isolated soy protein product [isolated soy protein, modified potato starch, corn starch, carrageenan, soy lecithin], dextrose, potassium chloride, salt, sodium phosphate, flavoring), broccoli, cheddar cheese (milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes, annatto).
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Cheesy Chicken & Rice: 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
- Marie Callender's
- Barcode
- 0021131905651
- Nutri-Score
- Grade C
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Cheesy Chicken & Rice's safety score compare to other products?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Cheesy Chicken & Rice's 4/5 average puts it in the lower 80%, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 4/5 ingredient safety score mean?
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 Cheesy Chicken & Rice 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.