Macaroni & cheese shells dinner
Macaroni & cheese shells dinner by Signature Kitchens, Safeway Inc. has 2 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 E.
- 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
Macaroni & cheese shells dinner 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). 2 of its 2 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 Macaroni & cheese shells 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: enriched flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), cheese sauce mix: dairy product solids, enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), whey, salt, enzyme modified cheddar cheese and butter (cheddar cheese [milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes], butter [cream, salt, annatto extract (color)], cheese culture, enzymes), cheddar cheese (milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), buttermilk. contains 2% or less of each of the following: modified corn starch, beet juice (color), annatto extract (color), beta carotene (color), turmeric oleoresin (color), lactic acid, sodium phosphate, disodium phosphate.
Product Details
- Barcode
- 0021130501830
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Macaroni & cheese shells dinner's safety score compare to other products?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Macaroni & cheese shells 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.
What does a 4.5/5 ingredient safety score mean?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Macaroni & cheese shells dinner's mapped ingredients average out to 4.5/5, which is 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.