veggie Mac & Cheese
veggie Mac & Cheese by Birds Eye has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 5 out of 5, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
- Safety score 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Frozen foods
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 veggie Mac & Cheese 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 veggie Mac & Cheese sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
5 Top 15% higher than 85% 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 lentil zucchini elbow pasta (lentil flour, water, zucchini), water, cheddar cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes, annatto color), cream, contains 2% or less of cheddar cheese (cultured pasteurized milk, salt, enzymes), corn starch, salt, whey, nonfat milk, sugar, buttermilk, xanthan gum, natural flavor, annatto extract (color), citric acid, paprika, turmeric extractives, beta carotene (color).
Product Details
- Brand
- Birds Eye
- Barcode
- 0014500031563
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does veggie Mac & Cheese rank on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, veggie Mac & Cheese's 5/5 average puts it in the safer 85%, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 5/5 rating on veggie Mac & Cheese?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; veggie Mac & Cheese's 5/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it in the Generally Safe 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.