Ez Mac 'N' Cheese Dinner
by Food Lion
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0035826085610 · Food Lion · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Ez Mac 'N' Cheese Dinner by Food Lion scores 0/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 40 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 5 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 40-component record, beginning with Enriched Macaroni Product, Wheat Flour, Durum 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
- 5
- Many flagged · of 40 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.
26085610 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Ez Mac 'N' Cheese Dinner label screening desk
19 of 40 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Titanium Dioxide). Source sheet 26085610 · 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: Assorted Twin Pops · Nearest score peer is Assorted Twin Pops 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.
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.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
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. Ez Mac 'N' Cheese Dinner scores 93.6 points below that category average (0/100 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
Ez Mac 'N' Cheese Dinner lists 40 ingredients on its label
40 72nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 72% of the 11,283 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
- 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 0/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (5 flagged of 40 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Enriched macaroni product (wheat flour, durum wheat flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), whey, maltodextrin, palm and/or soybean oil, salt, cheddar and blue cheese (pasteurized milk, salt, annatto extract, cheese culture, enzymes), lactose, modified tapioca starch, emulsifiers (acetic acid esters of mono - and diglycerides, medium chain triglycerides), modified corn starch, whole milk powder, potassium chloride, silicon dioxide, natural & artificial flavor, mono & diglycerides, sodium caseinate, color (titanium dioxide, yellow 5 lake, yellow 6 lake, yellow 5, yellow 6), citric acid, potassium phosphate, lactic acid, guar gum.
Other products containing Acetic Acid Esters Of Mono - And Diglycerides
Acetic Acid Esters Of Mono - And Diglycerides is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 25 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
More from Food Lion
Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Ez Mac 'N' Cheese Dinner
Neighbours outside Food Lion in the same lower screening band as Ez Mac 'N' Cheese Dinner (0/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Food Lion; these peers cross brands.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (5 flagged of 40 on 0035826085610).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (40 on 0035826085610).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Titanium Dioxide is the first flagged ingredient selected from Ez Mac 'N' Cheese Dinner's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 40-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Titanium Dioxide. Open Titanium Dioxide
- Compare Ez Mac 'N' Cheese Dinner's 5 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 0035826085610: 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.