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Hormel, compleats, cafe creations three cheese chicken pasta

Hormel, compleats, cafe creations three cheese chicken pasta: 4/5 ingredient safety

Hormel, compleats, cafe creations three cheese chicken pasta 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

Hormel, compleats, cafe creations three cheese chicken pasta 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). 3 of its 3 tracked ingredients are 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 Hormel, compleats, cafe creations three cheese chicken pasta 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

Water, pasta (durum wheat, water, egg white), pasteurized process swiss and american cheese (cultured milk and skim milk, cream, sodium phosphate, salt, sorbic acid [preservative], enzymes), white chicken strips with grill marks added (chicken breast with rib meat, water, modified food starch, salt, seasoning [maltodextrin, garlic flavor (salt, garlic, gum arabic, garlic extract, caramel color], sodium phosphate), pasteurized process american cheese (american cheese [milk, salt, cheese cultures, enzymes], water, sodium phosphate, cream, salt, lactic acid), milk, contains 2% or less of canola oil, modified cornstarch (contains erythorbic acid), parmesan cheese (parmesan cheese [pasteurized part-skim milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes], powdered cellulose to prevent caking, sorbic acid to protect flavor), cream cheese (pasteurized milk and cream, cheese culture, salt, carob bean gum), potato starch, yeast extract, potassium chloride, soy protein concentrate, flavoring, rice flour.

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Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth

Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Hormel, compleats, cafe creations three cheese chicken pasta: 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
0037600668774
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Hormel, compleats, cafe creations three cheese chicken pasta rank on ingredient safety?

Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Hormel, compleats, cafe creations three cheese chicken pasta's 4/5 average puts it in the lower 80%, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

How should Hormel, compleats, cafe creations three cheese chicken pasta's 4/5 score be read?

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 Hormel, compleats, cafe creations three cheese chicken pasta 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.