Deluxe macaroni and cheese
Deluxe macaroni and cheese by Heb has 1 tracked ingredient, 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 D.
- Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Meals / Pasta dishes / Macaroni and cheese
How This Score Is Built
Deluxe macaroni and cheese 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). 1 of its 1 tracked ingredient is 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 Deluxe macaroni and 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
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
ENRICHED MACARONI PRODUCT (WHEAT FLOUR MALTED BARLEY FLOUR NIACIN REDUCED IRON THAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN FOLIC ACIOL SKIM MILK CHERO CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK CHEESE CULTURE. SALT. ENZYMES MICROBIAL CANOLA OIL WATER, MALTODEXTRIN WHEY, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, CONTAINS 22 OR LESS OF SALT, BETA CAROTENE AND PAPRIKA EXTRACT (COLOR) NATURAL FLAVORS, SODIUM ALGINATE, MONO - AND DIGLYCERIDES LACTIC ACID, WHITE DISTILLED VINEGAR, YANTHAN GUM CONTAINS: WHEAT, MILK
Product Details
- Brand
- Heb
- Barcode
- 0041220069200
- Nutri-Score
- Grade D
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Deluxe macaroni and cheese's safety score compare to other products?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Deluxe macaroni and 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 Deluxe macaroni and 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 Deluxe macaroni and 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.