Concern

Cheeseburger Macaroni dinner kit pasta & cheese sauce mix

by Chestnut Hill

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0032251528170 · Chestnut Hill · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0032251528170 · Serving size 31 g

The verdict

Cheeseburger Macaroni dinner kit pasta & cheese sauce mix by Chestnut Hill scores 50/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 36 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 2 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 36-component record, beginning with Enriched Flour, Wheat Flour, Malted Barley 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.

50/100
Concern safety score
2
Few flagged · of 36 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
E
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

33/100

Grade F

Ingredient Safety

50/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

E

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.

51528170 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Cheeseburger Macaroni dinner kit pasta & cheese sauce mix label screening desk

SCORE-CONC 50/100 FLAG-FEW 2 flagged LEN-DENSE 36 ing. REG-PART 39% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-MID Len top 36% LEAD-FLAG Yellow 6 PHOTO-FINISH Watermelon Rings · ±0 BOOK-OFF …528170 · July 2026

14 of 36 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Yellow 6). Source sheet 51528170 · 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: Watermelon Rings · Nearest score peer is Watermelon Rings at the same screening score.

Screening model notes

How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record

This label lands in the third of four positions on the published scale. What separates that position from its neighbours is arithmetic rather than judgement: identical inputs run through the documented weighting always arrive at the same place. Anyone who works the calculation through by hand, using the methodology write-up together with the itemised ratings further down, will reproduce this number exactly — which is the reason for publishing a computed figure instead of an opinion.

Nutri-Score assigned its lowest band to this label. The algorithm reserves that grade for nutrition panels where the values it penalises sit well above the components it credits. The two systems on this page measure genuinely different things: a product can hold this grade while carrying no additive flagged by the registries screened below, and a product graded well can carry several. Neither reading substitutes for the other, and the per-component table is where the additive picture is set out.

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

1. Cheeseburger Macaroni dinner kit pasta & cheese sauce mix: 50/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Cheeseburger Macaroni din…50/1002. Watermelon Rings: 50/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Watermelon Rings50/1003. Juice Cocktail: 50/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Juice Cocktail50/1004. Sour Powder Bubble Gum: 50/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Sour Powder Bubble Gum50/1005. Gummi Peach Ring: 50/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Gummi Peach Ring50/100
Nearest cross-brand screening scores for Cheeseburger Macaroni dinner kit pasta & cheese sauce mix (50/100 on 36 parsed ingredients).
Chart values as text

Unit: PlainFoodSafe screening score out of 100. Data current as of July 2026.

Cheeseburger Macaroni dinner kit pasta & cheese sauce mix
50/100
Watermelon Rings
50/100
Juice Cocktail
50/100
Sour Powder Bubble Gum
50/100
Gummi Peach Ring
50/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 15,626 products we've scored in the Meals category, the average safety score is 93.6/100. Cheeseburger Macaroni dinner kit pasta & cheese sauce mix scores 43.6 points below that category average (50/100 vs. 93.6/100), 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 Meals products

Cheeseburger Macaroni dinner kit pasta & cheese sauce mix lists 36 ingredients on its label

36 64th percentile a longer ingredient list than 64% of the 11,283 products we track

0–2: 12 products (0%). Below this entry. 2–4: 83 products (1%). Below this entry. 4–6: 127 products (1%). Below this entry. 6–8: 209 products (2%). Below this entry. 8–10: 312 products (3%). Below this entry. 10–12: 315 products (3%). Below this entry. 12–14: 412 products (4%). Below this entry. 14–16: 477 products (4%). Below this entry. 16–18: 542 products (5%). Below this entry. 18–20: 552 products (5%). Below this entry. 20–22: 545 products (5%). Below this entry. 22–24: 550 products (5%). Below this entry. 24–26: 552 products (5%). Below this entry. 26–28: 552 products (5%). Below this entry. 28–30: 574 products (5%). Below this entry. 30–32: 517 products (5%). Below this entry. 32–34: 466 products (4%). Below this entry. 34–36: 451 products (4%). Below this entry. 36–38: 443 products (4%). This entry sits in this band. 38–40: 388 products (3%). Above this entry. 40–42: 3,204 products (28%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Meals product, bucketed by value

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

11,283 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 36 (64th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
12 products (0%)
2–4
83 products (1%)
4–6
127 products (1%)
6–8
209 products (2%)
8–10
312 products (3%)
10–12
315 products (3%)
12–14
412 products (4%)
14–16
477 products (4%)
16–18
542 products (5%)
18–20
552 products (5%)
20–22
545 products (5%)
22–24
550 products (5%)
24–26
552 products (5%)
26–28
552 products (5%)
28–30
574 products (5%)
30–32
517 products (5%)
32–34
466 products (4%)
34–36
451 products (4%)
36–38
443 products (4%)
38–40
388 products (3%)
40 and above
3,204 products (28%)

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 11,283 Meals 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 50/100 score is built

Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 36 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

Full Ingredient List

ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), CORN STARCH, SALT, CHEDDAR CHEESE (MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES), CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING: DEHYDRATED TOMATO. MALTODEXTRIN, DEHYDRATED ONION, ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, WHEY, SUGAR, DEHYDRATED GARLIC, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, CITRIC ACID, LEAVENING (SODIUM HEXAMETAPHOSPHATE), HYDROLYZED CORN PROTEIN, BLUE CHEESE (CULTURED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES), SPICE, YELLOW 5 (COLOR), REDUCED-LACTOSE WHEY. MONOGLYCERIDES, YELLOW 6 (COLOR), AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, DISODIUM GUANYLATE, DISODIUM INOSINATE SUNFLOWER OIL

Categories

Meals Pasta dishes Macaroni and cheese

Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Cheeseburger Macaroni dinner kit pasta & cheese sauce mix

Neighbours outside Chestnut Hill near Cheeseburger Macaroni dinner kit pasta & cheese sauce mix's mid-band score (50/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Chestnut Hill; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Yellow 6 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Cheeseburger Macaroni dinner kit pasta & cheese sauce mix's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 36-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Yellow 6. Open Yellow 6
  • Compare Cheeseburger Macaroni dinner kit pasta & cheese sauce mix's 2 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 0032251528170: 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.