Market pantry, swift mac, macaroni & cheese cups
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0492121401635 · Market Pantry · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Market pantry, swift mac, macaroni & cheese cups by Market Pantry scores 75/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 36 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 36-component record, beginning with Enriched Macaroni Product, Wheat Flour, Durum 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.
- 75/100
- Caution safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 36 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
50/100
Grade C-
Ingredient Safety
75/100
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.
21401635 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Market pantry, swift mac, macaroni & cheese cups label screening desk
12 of 36 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Yellow 6). Source sheet 21401635 · 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: Soda, peach · Nearest score peer is Soda, peach 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 second band of the four-tier framework. That band collects labels whose registry-rated components pull the derived score down measurably without dominating it. Position inside a band is not visible from the band name, and two labels sharing it can differ in how many components were rated and how severely. This is a threshold on an index computed here from public data, not a regulatory classification of any kind; the exact cut-offs are published on the methodology page.
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. Market pantry, swift mac, macaroni & cheese cups scores 18.6 points below that category average (75/100 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
Market pantry, swift mac, macaroni & cheese cups lists 36 ingredients on its label
36 64th percentile a longer ingredient list than 64% 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 75/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 36 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Enriched macaroni product (wheat flour, durum flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), cheese sauce mix (whey, corn syrup solids, palm oil, nonfat milk, butter [cream, salt], salt, milk protein concentrate, cheddar cheese [pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes], sodium phosphate, natural flavors, sodium caseinate, lactic acid, medium chain triglycerides, annatto extract [color], disodium phosphate, monoglycerides, yellow 6, silicon dioxide), food starch modified, acetylated monoglycerides, potassium chloride, salt, maltodextrin, silicon dioxide.
Other products containing Cheese Sauce Mix
Cheese Sauce Mix is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 217 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
More from Market Pantry
Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Market pantry, swift mac, macaroni & cheese cups
Neighbours outside Market Pantry near Market pantry, swift mac, macaroni & cheese cups's mid-band score (75/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Market Pantry; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 36 on 0492121401635).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (36 on 0492121401635).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Yellow 6 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Market pantry, swift mac, macaroni & cheese cups'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 Market pantry, swift mac, macaroni & cheese cups's 1 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 0492121401635: 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.