Italian sides mac & cheese, truffle
Italian sides mac & cheese, truffle by Tops has 2 tracked ingredients, 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 E.
- Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Meals / Pasta dishes
How This Score Is Built
This 1-5 scale is an editorially-derived index, not an official government rating -- it synthesizes FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research. For Italian sides mac & cheese, truffle, 2 of its 2 tracked ingredients carry a scored rating so far, current as of 2026-09-07.
Data draws on Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records -- cross-check with the FDA → directly, or read how we score it.
Where Italian sides mac & cheese, truffle 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
Durum wheat pasta, process cheese food in powder (cheddar cheese, gouda cheese and blue cheese blend [pasteurized milk, salt, cheese cultures, enzymes], whey powder, salt, sodium citrate, disodium phosphate), whey powder, powdered sunflower oil preparation (sunflower oil, glucose syrup, sodium caseinate, silicon dioxide), dehydrated mushroom, natural flavors, potato starch, salt, yeast extract, artificial truffle flavor, dehydrated black truffle granules, garlic powder, turmeric powder, onion powder, pepper powder.
Product Details
- Brand
- Tops
- Barcode
- 0007078442060
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Italian sides mac & cheese, truffle above or below average on ingredient safety?
Italian sides mac & cheese, truffle scores 4 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 80% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Italian sides mac & cheese, truffle'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 Italian sides mac & cheese, truffle 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.