Garlic Butter Steak Bites
Garlic Butter Steak Bites by Marie Callender's has 3 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.7 out of 5, 0.42 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 0.42 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Frozen foods / Meals / Meals with meat / Frozen meals with meat
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 Garlic Butter Steak Bites 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 Garlic Butter Steak Bites sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3.7 Top 87% higher than 13% 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
- Sodium Phosphates - Safety score: 2/5
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
GARLIC BUTTER SAUCE (WATER, BUTTER [CREAM, SALT], ONIONS, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, LESS THAN 2% OF: GARLIC PUREE, GARLIC POWDER, SOYBEAN OIL, GARLIC, BUTTER FLAVOR [BUTTER [CREAM, SALT), NATURAL FLAVOR], SALT, CHARDONNAY WINE, NONFAT DRY MILK, BLACK PEPPER, CANOLA OIL, OLIVE OIL, PARSLEY, XANTHAN GUM, SUGAR, GUAR GUM), RUSSET POTATOES, GREEN BEANS, SEASONED COOKED BEEF STEAK AND BINDER PRODUCT (BEEF, WATER, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: CARAMEL COLOR, DEXTROSE, SEASONING [NATURAL FLAVOR, SALT, MALTODEXTRIN, DRIED WHEY, DRIED CAULIFLOWER, SESAME OIL), MODIFIED CORN STARCH, POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, POTASSIUM PHOSPHATE, SALT, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, SPICE EXTRACTIVES), BUTTERY GARLIC SAUCE (WATER, CANOLA OIL, BUTTER [CREAM, SALT], MODIFIED CORN STARCH, SALT, GARLIC POWDER, DISTILLED VINEGAR, ONION POWDER, BLACK PEPPER), ONIONS. CONTAINS: MILK, SESAME
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Garlic Butter Steak Bites: 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: 3.7/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 3.
Product Details
- Brand
- Marie Callender's
- Barcode
- 0021131002732
- Nutri-Score
- Grade C
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Garlic Butter Steak Bites's safety score compare to other products?
With an average ingredient safety score of 3.7/5, Garlic Butter Steak Bites sits behind 87% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.42 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 3.7/5 rating on Garlic Butter Steak Bites?
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 3.7/5 average places Garlic Butter Steak Bites 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.