Hormel Nutri-Score C NOVA 4

Chicken Alfredo

Chicken Alfredo: 3.5/5 ingredient safety

Chicken Alfredo by Hormel has 4 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.5 out of 5, 0.62 points below 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 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

Meals / Stews

How This Score Is Built

Chicken Alfredo draws on FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research, combined into a single editorially-derived 1-5 scale (never an official government rating). 4 of its 4 tracked ingredients are scored so far; data as of 2026-09-07.

Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records feed this score. The FDA site → has the primary record; our methodology page explains the scoring.

Where Chicken Alfredo sits nationally

Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients

3.5 Top 91% higher than 9% 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

3.5
Mixed Evidence
Average ingredient safety: 3.5 out of 5
Based on 4 tracked ingredients
4
Tracked Ingredients
1
Concerning
3
Low Risk / Safe
C
Nutri-Score
1 ingredient flagged for safety concerns

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

4
NOVA Group 4
Ultra-processed foods

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, penne pasta (water, durum semolina wheat, egg whites, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), white chicken meat (white chicken meat, water, modified food starch, salt, sodium phosphates), alfredo sauce (water, palm oil, mozzarella cheese [milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes], modified food starch, stabilizer [modified food starch, sodium alginate, datem, locust bean gum, guar gum, maltodextrin], sodium phosphate, natural flavor, calcium phosphate, salt, sorbic acid [as a preservative]), contains 2% or less of soybean oil, heavy cream ({from milk} contains carrageenan), rice starch, potato starch, butter (cream [milk]), flavoring, salt, romano cheese (romano cheese [pasteurized cow's milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes], powdered cellulose [to prevent caking], salt), potassium chloride, flavor (maltodextrin, cultured whey [from milk]), milk protein concentrate, disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate, titanium dioxide (color), spices, cream of

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Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth

Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Chicken Alfredo: 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.

Product Details

Brand
Hormel
Barcode
0037600833233
Nutri-Score
Grade C
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Chicken Alfredo rank on ingredient safety?

Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Chicken Alfredo's 3.5/5 average puts it in the lower 91%, 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What's behind the 3.5/5 rating on Chicken Alfredo?

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 3.5/5 average places Chicken Alfredo in the Mixed Evidence 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.