Fast mac, original macaroni & cheese, original
by Weis Quality
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0041497286782 · Weis Quality · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Fast mac, original macaroni & cheese, original by Weis Quality scores 10/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 33 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 33-component record, beginning with Enriched Macaroni, Wheat Flour, Salt. 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.
- 10/100
- Avoid safety score
- 4
- Many flagged · of 33 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
13/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
10/100
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.
97286782 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Fast mac, original macaroni & cheese, original label screening desk
16 of 33 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Titanium Dioxide). Source sheet 97286782 · 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: Christmas Gummi Bears · Nearest score peer is Christmas Gummi Bears 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 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.
This label parsed into a long component list. Where many entries are screened at once, the composite tends to reflect the overall mix of registry ratings returned rather than the rating of any one entry. Longer declarations also carry more sub-listed and compound entries, where a parenthetical group is resolved into its parts, so the parsed count can exceed what a reader counts on the packaging.
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. Fast mac, original macaroni & cheese, original scores 83.6 points below that category average (10/100 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
Fast mac, original macaroni & cheese, original lists 33 ingredients on its label
33 58th percentile a longer ingredient list than 58% 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 10/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (4 flagged of 33 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Enriched macaroni (wheat flour, salt, glyceryl monostearate, niacin, iron [ferrous sulfate], thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), whey (from milk), maltodextrin (from corn), partially hydrogenated soybean oil, cheddar cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), modified corn starch, corn syrup solids, salt, buttermilk, sodium phosphate, sodium caseinate (from milk), natural and artificial flavors, autolyzed yeast extract, citric acid, monoglycerides, titanium dioxide (color), yellow 5 lake, yellow 5, yellow 6.
Other products containing Enriched Macaroni
Enriched Macaroni is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 231 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Fast mac, original macaroni & cheese, original
Neighbours outside Weis Quality in the same lower screening band as Fast mac, original macaroni & cheese, original (10/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Weis Quality; these peers cross brands.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (4 flagged of 33 on 0041497286782).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (33 on 0041497286782).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Titanium Dioxide is the first flagged ingredient selected from Fast mac, original macaroni & cheese, original's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 33-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Titanium Dioxide. Open Titanium Dioxide
- Compare Fast mac, original macaroni & cheese, original'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 0041497286782: 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.