Penne & Vegetable With Alfredo Sauce
Penne & Vegetable With Alfredo Sauce by Birds Eye 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 B.
- Safety score 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
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How This Score Is Built
Penne & Vegetable With 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). 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 Penne & Vegetable With Alfredo Sauce 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
COOKED ENRICHED MACARONI PRODUCT (WATER, ENRICHED MACARONI PRODUCT (DURUM WHEAT SEMOLINA, NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID)), ALFREDO SAUCE (WATER, LIGHT CREAM BLEND (CREAM, SKIM MILK POWDER), ROMANO CHEESE (PASTEURIZED PART SKIM COW'S MILK, CULTURE SALT, ENZYMES), ALFREDO FLAVOR BASE (PARMESAN CHEESE [MILK, CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES], AND ROMANO CHEESE [MILK, CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES], UNSALTED BUTTER, OLIVE OIL, SWEET POWDER, SUGAR, YEAST EXTRACT AND FLAVORINGS), MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, FLAVOR (PARMESAN CHEESE [MILK CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES], SALT, YEAST EXTRACT, UNSALTED TED BUTTER (CREAM, FLAVORINGS), CORN OIL, OLIVE OIL, CREAM POWDER, SUGAR AND NATURAL FLAVORINGS), ROMANO TYPE CHEESE BLEND (GRANULAR AND ROMANO CHEESE FROM COW'S MILK [PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES], WHEY, WATER, SALT, LACTIC ACID, SODIUM CITRATE), WHEY, BUTTER CONCENTRATE (BUTTER [CREAM, SALT], FLAVOR), XANTHAN GUM, NATURAL PARMESAN CHEESE TYPE FLAVOR (DEHYDRATED CHE
Product Details
- Brand
- Birds Eye
- Barcode
- 0014500013743
- Nutri-Score
- Grade B
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Penne & Vegetable With Alfredo Sauce rank on ingredient safety?
Penne & Vegetable With Alfredo Sauce scores 4.5 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, safer than 71% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 4.5/5 rating on Penne & Vegetable With Alfredo Sauce?
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 4.5/5 average places Penne & Vegetable With Alfredo Sauce 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.