Penne pasta in a creamy alfredo sauce
Penne pasta in a creamy alfredo sauce by Hormel, Hormel Foods Corporation has 4 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.5 out of 5, 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is C, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.
- Safety score 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Meals
How This Score Is Built
Penne pasta in a creamy alfredo sauce 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). 4 of its 4 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 Penne pasta in a creamy alfredo sauce sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3.5 Top 91% higher than 9% 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
- Titanium Dioxide - Safety score: 2/5
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, penne pasta (water, durum semolina wheat, egg whites, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), alfredo sauce (water, palm oil, mozzarella cheese [milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes], modified food starch, stabilizer [modified food starch, sodium alginate, datem, locust bean gum, guar gum, maltodextrin], sodium phosphate, natural flavor, calcium phosphate, salt, sorbic acid [as a preservative]), contains 2% or less of soybean oil, cream ({from milk} contains carrageenan), rice starch, potato starch, butter (cream [milk]), onion powder, salt, romano cheese (romano cheese [pasteurized cow's milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes], powdered cellulose [to prevent caking], salt), potassium chloride, flavor (maltodextrin, cultured whey [from milk]), milk protein concentrate (nonfat milk, milk protein), disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate, spices, titanium dioxide (color), cream of tartar.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Penne pasta in a creamy alfredo sauce: 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.
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Nearest products by average mapped safety score. This record: 3.5/5.
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Product Details
- Barcode
- 0037600722483
- Nutri-Score
- Grade C
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Penne pasta in a creamy alfredo sauce's safety score compare to other products?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Penne pasta in a creamy alfredo sauce's 3.5/5 average puts it in the lower 91%, 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Penne pasta in a creamy alfredo sauce's 3.5/5 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 3.5/5 average places Penne pasta in a creamy alfredo sauce in the Mixed Evidence tier.
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