Sauced parmesan penne
Sauced parmesan penne 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
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 Sauced parmesan penne 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 Sauced parmesan penne 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 penne pasta [water, enriched durum wheat semolina (semolina, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid)], sauce [water, grated parmesan cheese (pasteurized part skim milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), cream, nonfat milk, cheese base (alfredo cheese flavor [granular, parmesan, and romano cheeses (pasteurized milk, cultures, salt, enzymes), water, salt, natural flavor, citric acid], salt, butter [cream, natural flavoring], olive oil, sweet cream solids, sugar, yeast extract, garlic powder, natural flavor, onion powder), modified food starch, soybean oil, basil, garlic powder, butter (cream, salt), salt, xanthan gum, spice, natural flavor], spinach.
Product Details
- Brand
- Birds Eye
- Barcode
- 0014500025180
- Nutri-Score
- Grade B
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Sauced parmesan penne's safety score compare to other products?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Sauced parmesan penne's 4.5/5 average puts it in the safer 71%, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Sauced parmesan penne's 4.5/5 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 4.5/5 average places Sauced parmesan penne 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.