Compleats microwave dinner
Compleats microwave dinner by Hormel has 5 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.2 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is C.
- Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Meals / Pasta dishes
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 Compleats microwave dinner, 5 of its 5 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 Compleats microwave dinner sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.2 Top 40% higher than 60% of 58,710 scored products
Average ingredient safety score (1 = highest risk, 5 = safest), bucketed by value
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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
Chicken broth (contains ascorbic acid and flavor), enriched egg noodle (water, durum wheat, whole egg, egg white, niacin, ferrous sulfate (iron), thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), white chicken (white chicken meat, water, modified food starch, salt, sodium phosphates), cultured sour cream (nonfat milk, cream, whey, modified cornstarch, sodium phosphate, guar gum, carrageenan, sodium citrate, locust bean gum), carrots, peas, modified cornstarch (contains erythorbic acid), contains 2% or less of red bell peppers, chicken fat, hydrolyzed corn protein, salt, flavoring, potassium chloride, yeast extract, dextrose, spices, sodium bisulfite, sugar, citric acid, cream of tartar, annatto color.
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Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Compleats microwave dinner: 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: 4.2/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 5.
Product Details
- Brand
- Hormel
- Barcode
- 0037600186308
- Nutri-Score
- Grade C
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Compleats microwave dinner's safety score compare to other products?
Compleats microwave dinner scores 4.2 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, safer than 60% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Compleats microwave dinner's 4.2/5 score be read?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Compleats microwave dinner's mapped ingredients average out to 4.2/5, which is 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.