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Compleats swedish meatballs with pasta in cream sauce

Compleats swedish meatballs with pasta in cream sauce: 4/5 ingredient safety

Compleats swedish meatballs with pasta in cream sauce by Hormel has 3 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

  • Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

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. 3 of 3 ingredients tracked for Compleats swedish meatballs with pasta in cream sauce 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 Compleats swedish meatballs with pasta in cream sauce 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

4
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 4 out of 5
Based on 3 tracked ingredients
3
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
3
Low Risk / Safe
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Nutri-Score

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

Chicken broth (contains flavor), cooked swedish meatballs (beef, pork, eggs, seasoning [salt, onion powder, spices, fried flavor {canola oil, soybean oil, chicken fat, cottonseed oil, flavor}], cream [from milk], bread crumbs [wheat flour, sugar, salt, yeast, canola oil], flavoring, modified food starch, soy protein concentrate), enriched macaroni product (water, semolina [wheat], egg whites, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), cream (contains carrageenan), modified cornstarch, cultured sour cream (nonfat milk, cream, whey, modified cornstarch, sodium phosphate, guar gum, carrageenan, sodium citrate, locust bean gum), contains 2% or less of sherry wine, bleached wheat flour (contains an enzyme), whey protein concentrate (from milk), hydrolyzed corn protein, yeast extract, salt, mushroom extract (mushrooms, maltodextrin), potassium chloride, disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate, brown sugar, flavoring, sugar.

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Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth

Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Compleats swedish meatballs with pasta in cream sauce: 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
0037600458023
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Compleats swedish meatballs with pasta in cream sauce rank on ingredient safety?

With an average ingredient safety score of 4/5, Compleats swedish meatballs with pasta in cream sauce sits behind 80% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What's behind the 4/5 rating on Compleats swedish meatballs with pasta in cream sauce?

Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Compleats swedish meatballs with pasta in cream sauce's 4/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it 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.