Product Insight: Hormel, compleats, macaroni & cheese
Hormel, compleats, macaroni & cheese by Hormel is tracked in PlainIngredients with 3 identified ingredients and carries an overall safety rating of 4 out of 5 — a Low-Risk-to-Safe tier backed by FDA and EU regulatory status. On the NOVA processing scale, this product falls into Group 4 (Ultra-processed foods), a standard framework for classifying how heavily food has been industrially modified before reaching the shelf, and Its Nutri-Score grade is C, the European front-of-pack nutritional label summarizing calories, saturated fat, sodium, sugar, protein, fiber, and produce content. Within the identified ingredient list, no ingredient on this product currently carries a Caution or High-Risk flag in our database, while 3 ingredients sit at the Low-Risk or Safe end of the scale.
Our composite score weighs each ingredient's U.S. FDA regulatory status (GRAS, Approved, or Banned), European Union food-additive status under Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, any U.S. state-level restrictions, and signals drawn from peer-reviewed toxicology literature. The per-product score is the mean of the per-ingredient ratings and should be read as a structured summary rather than a clinical verdict; edge cases such as cumulative exposure, individual allergies, and dietary interactions are not captured by a single number and are better addressed by reading the individual ingredient pages linked below.
Sources: Open Food Facts (product + ingredient list, CC0 licensed) · FDA SAFFA · EU Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 · U.S. state food-safety statutes
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
Water, enriched macaroni (semolina [wheat], water, egg whites, niacin, ferrous sulfate [iron], thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), pasteurized process swiss and american cheese (cultured milk and skim milk, cream, sodium phosphate, salt, sorbic acid [preservative], enzymes), pasteurized process american cheese (milk, salt, cheese cultures, enzymes, water, sodium phosphate, cream, salt, lactic acid), milk (contains vitamin d3), contains 2% or less of canola oil, modified cornstarch (contains erythorbic acid), 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 cultures, salt, carob bean gum), potato starch, potassium chloride, yeast extract (contains maltodextrin), soy protein concentrate, onion powder, rice flour, carotene color (carotene, sucrose esters, ascorbyl palmitate, and dl alpha tocopherol), annatto color
Data Sources
- Open Food Facts — Product data and ingredient lists
- FDA Substances Added to Food (SAFFA) Inventory — Safety scores
- EU Food Additive Regulations (EC) No 1333/2008
Product Details
- Brand
- Hormel
- Barcode
- 0037600668811
- Nutri-Score
- Grade C
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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