Mac & cheese snacks, made with real cheese
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0028400666336 · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Mac & cheese snacks, made with real cheese scores 0/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 76 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 76-component record, beginning with Water, Enriched Flour, Bleached Wheat Flour. 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 76 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- D
- 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
13/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
0/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
D
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.
00666336 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Mac & cheese snacks, made with real cheese label screening desk
25 of 76 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Yellow 6). Source sheet 00666336 · 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
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.
This label falls in the fourth Nutri-Score band. The model arrives there when its penalty terms — energy density, sugars, saturated fat, sodium — carry more weight in the calculation than the fibre, protein and produce content it credits. The band covers a wide span of the points scale, so position within it is not visible from the letter alone. The grade reflects the declared nutrition panel and is unrelated to the additive ratings listed below, which come from different bodies applying different criteria.
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.
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 24,982 products we've scored in the Frozen foods category, the average safety score is 92.9/100. Mac & cheese snacks, made with real cheese scores 92.9 points below that category average (0/100 vs. 92.9/100), 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 Frozen foods products
Mac & cheese snacks, made with real cheese lists 76 ingredients on its label
76 97th percentile a longer ingredient list than 97% of the 7,008 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
- 11 products (0%)
- 2–4
- 54 products (1%)
- 4–6
- 54 products (1%)
- 6–8
- 66 products (1%)
- 8–10
- 102 products (1%)
- 10–12
- 112 products (2%)
- 12–14
- 184 products (3%)
- 14–16
- 205 products (3%)
- 16–18
- 245 products (3%)
- 18–20
- 284 products (4%)
- 20–22
- 264 products (4%)
- 22–24
- 298 products (4%)
- 24–26
- 247 products (4%)
- 26–28
- 271 products (4%)
- 28–30
- 284 products (4%)
- 30–32
- 294 products (4%)
- 32–34
- 325 products (5%)
- 34–36
- 319 products (5%)
- 36–38
- 314 products (4%)
- 38–40
- 283 products (4%)
- 40 and above
- 2,792 products (40%)
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 7,008 Frozen foods 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 76 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Water, enriched flour (bleached wheat flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), soybean oil, enriched durum semolina wheat flour (durum semolina wheat flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), cheddar cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), bleached wheat flour, yellow corn flour, whey, and less than 2% of the following: milk protein concentrate, canola oil, enzyme modified cheese (pasteurized milk, water, sodium phosphate, milk fat, salt, cheese cultures, enzymes), sodium phosphate, sodium hexametaphosphate, salt, malic acid, lactic acid, sorbic acid (preservative), artificial color (yellow 5, yellow 5 lake, yellow 6, yellow 6 lake), spices, yeast, sugar, onion powder, citric acid, natural and artificial flavors, maltodextrin, modified potato starch, modified corn starch, medium chain triglycerides, dextrose, leavening agents (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda, monocalcium phosphate), buttermilk, granular cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), whey protein concentrate, enzyme, cheddar cheese (milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), semi-soft cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), cellulose gum, disodium phosphate, modified cellulose, soy lecithin, coconut oil, butter (cream, salt), unsalted butter (pasteurized cream, natural flavor), skim milk, monosodium glutamate, rice flour, gum acacia, tapioca dextrin, dextrin, corn starch, corn syrup solids, dl-alpha-tocopherols, xanthan gum, reduced iron, and egg.
Categories
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Yellow 6 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Mac & cheese snacks, made with real cheese's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 76-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Yellow 6. Open Yellow 6
- Compare Mac & cheese snacks, made with real cheese'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 0028400666336: 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.