Ultimate Cheeseburger Mac
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0021000034055 · Velveeta Skillets · Plant-based foods and beverages. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Ultimate Cheeseburger Mac by Velveeta Skillets scores 0/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 53 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 4 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 53-component record, beginning with Cheese Sauce, Whey, Cheddar Cheese. That density can include amounts and label fragments, so verify the physical label before relying on ingredient order or completeness. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 0/100
- Avoid safety score
- 4
- Many flagged · of 53 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- A
- Nutri-Score nutrition grade
Computed directly from OpenFoodFacts ingredient data cross-referenced with FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings. See our methodology for the scoring formula.
Composite profile score
One verdict from three independent sources
28/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
0/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
A
Nutri-Score front-of-pack nutrition grade
Weighted 50% ingredient safety / 25% processing level / 25% nutrition grade. A dimension with no data for this product (common: source coverage is partial) is dropped and its weight redistributes across the remaining dimensions, so missing data never silently lowers the score. See the full benchmark table.
00034055 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Ultimate Cheeseburger Mac label screening desk
18 of 53 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Yellow 6). Source sheet 00034055 · Open Food Facts · July 2026. The screening score and flag counts are in the verdict band above. This desk is the provenance stamp, not a second scorecard. Methodology · Read with nearest score peer: Ultimate Cheeseburger Mac One Pan Dinner Kits · Nearest score peer is Ultimate Cheeseburger Mac One Pan Dinner Kits at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
The composite for this product falls in the lowest of the four bands. That is where labels land when registry-rated components drive the greater part of the deduction from the index. The band name is drawn from the framework's own scale and is distinct from the ratings the registries themselves assign to individual substances, which are shown per component below. A single heavily rated component and several lightly rated ones can produce the same band, so the component table is the more precise reading of the two.
Nutri-Score placed this label in its highest band. The model reaches that grade when the credit side of its ledger — fibre, protein and the fruit, vegetable and legume fraction — outweighs the energy, sugar, saturated-fat and sodium it counts against a product. The scale is computed per hundred grams from the declared nutrition panel, which is why two products with similar ingredients can grade differently on portion-heavy categories. It is a nutritional summary only, calculated independently of the additive registries screened further down this page, and it neither incorporates nor contradicts them.
The declared list is among the longer ones in this catalogue. A component set this wide means the screen returns many individual ratings, and the composite accumulates a large number of small contributions instead of turning on a handful of entries. At this length the per-component table below is substantially more informative than the single figure, because the figure compresses a great deal of variation into one number.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 78,450 products we've scored in the Plant-based foods and beverages category, the average safety score is 97.7/100. Ultimate Cheeseburger Mac scores 97.7 points below that category average (0/100 vs. 97.7/100), so it is a comparatively weaker pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Plant-based foods and beverages products
Ultimate Cheeseburger Mac lists 53 ingredients on its label
53 99th percentile a longer ingredient list than 99% of the 63,434 products we track
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more products. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 3,907 products (6%)
- 2–4
- 7,921 products (12%)
- 4–6
- 8,845 products (14%)
- 6–8
- 7,032 products (11%)
- 8–10
- 6,320 products (10%)
- 10–12
- 4,190 products (7%)
- 12–14
- 3,449 products (5%)
- 14–16
- 3,051 products (5%)
- 16–18
- 2,493 products (4%)
- 18–20
- 2,053 products (3%)
- 20–22
- 1,808 products (3%)
- 22–24
- 1,758 products (3%)
- 24–26
- 1,623 products (3%)
- 26–28
- 1,606 products (3%)
- 28–30
- 1,360 products (2%)
- 30–32
- 1,198 products (2%)
- 32–34
- 1,081 products (2%)
- 34–36
- 901 products (1%)
- 36–38
- 649 products (1%)
- 38–40
- 534 products (1%)
- 40 and above
- 1,655 products (3%)
Source Open Food Facts, product label ingredient lists · July 2026
Ingredient-list length is a descriptive property of the label, not a safety rating. A longer list is not automatically worse and a shorter one is not automatically better; the count is shown so the label can be placed against a comparable population. The comparison here runs against the 63,434 Plant-based foods and beverages products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
How the 0/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (4 flagged of 53 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
cheese sauce (whey, cheddar cheese (milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes], canola oil, whey protein concentrate, milk, milk protein concentrate, sodium phosphate, contains less than 2% of salt, lactic acid, sodium alginate, sorbic acid as a preservative, milkfat, oleoresin paprika [color], cheese culture, annatto extract [color], natural flavor, enzymes), enriched macaroni product (wheat flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate [iron], thiamin mononitrate [vitamin b1), riboflavin [vitamín b2], folic acid), seasoning blend (onions , whey, cheddar cheese (milk, cheese culture, salt enzymes), whey protein concentrate, sunflower oil, milk, maltodextrin, salt, hydrolyzed čorn protein, tomatoes, lactose, spices [contains mustard], sodium phosphate, contains less than 2% of sodium diacetate, butter, buttermilk, garlic*, yellow 5 lake, lactic acid, ancho peppers, natural flavor, sugar, yellow 6 lake, citric acid, cheese culture, énzymes, yellow 5, yellow 6), *dried 20 contains: wheat, milk,
Categories
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Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Ultimate Cheeseburger Mac
Neighbours outside Velveeta Skillets in the same lower screening band as Ultimate Cheeseburger Mac (0/100). The 1 same-brand link above stay within Velveeta Skillets; these peers cross brands.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (4 flagged of 53 on 0021000034055).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (53 on 0021000034055).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Yellow 6 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Ultimate Cheeseburger Mac's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 53-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Yellow 6. Open Yellow 6
- Compare Ultimate Cheeseburger Mac's 4 flagged ingredients with a product from the same score neighbourhood. Compare labels
- Check how caution flags contribute to the derived screening score before drawing a dietary conclusion. Read the method
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0021000034055: product data from Open Food Facts (July 2026). Screening from FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine where attached. Figures are computed from those sources, not editor-typed. Methodology. Reference only, not dietary or medical advice.