Original microwaveable macaroni & cheese dinner, original
Original microwaveable macaroni & cheese dinner, original by Food Club 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
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. 2 of 2 ingredients tracked for Original microwaveable macaroni & cheese dinner, original 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 Original microwaveable macaroni & cheese dinner, original 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
Enriched macaroni product: [(wheat flour, niacin, iron [ferrous sulfate], thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), glycerol monostearate], cheese sauce: [whey, maltodextrin, semisoft cheese (milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), salt, palm oil. contains 2% or less of each of the following: modified corn starch, corn syrup solids, with beet juice, annatto extract, beta carotene, and turmeric oleoresin added for color guar gum, sodium phosphate, lactic acid, calcium phosphate, natural flavor, sodium caseinate, dipotassium phosphate, monoglycerides, sodium silicoaluminate]; maltodextrin, modified corn starch, salt, propylene glycol fatty acid esters, mono and diglycerides, potassium chloride, monoglycerides, anti-caking agent (calcium silicate).
Product Details
- Brand
- Food Club
- Barcode
- 0036800343122
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Original microwaveable macaroni & cheese dinner, original above or below average on ingredient safety?
Original microwaveable macaroni & cheese dinner, original 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 Original microwaveable macaroni & cheese dinner, original's 4/5 score be read?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Original microwaveable macaroni & cheese dinner, original's 4/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it 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.