Ez Mac 'N' Cheese Dinner
Ez Mac 'N' Cheese Dinner by Food Lion has 6 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.5 out of 5, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is D.
- Safety score 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Meals / Pasta dishes
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. 6 of 6 ingredients tracked for Ez Mac 'N' Cheese Dinner 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 Ez Mac 'N' Cheese Dinner sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.5 Top 29% higher than 71% 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, durum wheat flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), whey, maltodextrin, palm and/or soybean oil, salt, cheddar and blue cheese (pasteurized milk, salt, annatto extract, cheese culture, enzymes), lactose, modified tapioca starch, emulsifiers (acetic acid esters of mono - and diglycerides, medium chain triglycerides), modified corn starch, whole milk powder, potassium chloride, silicon dioxide, natural & artificial flavor, mono & diglycerides, sodium caseinate, color (titanium dioxide, yellow 5 lake, yellow 6 lake, yellow 5, yellow 6), citric acid, potassium phosphate, lactic acid, guar gum.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Ez Mac 'N' Cheese 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: 4.5/5.
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Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 6.
Product Details
- Brand
- Food Lion
- Barcode
- 0035826085610
- Nutri-Score
- Grade D
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Ez Mac 'N' Cheese Dinner above or below average on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Ez Mac 'N' Cheese Dinner's 4.5/5 average puts it in the safer 71%, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Ez Mac 'N' Cheese Dinner's 4.5/5 score be read?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Ez Mac 'N' Cheese Dinner's 4.5/5 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.