Pepper jack mac 'n' cheese rotini pasta in a cheese sauce, pepper jack
by Chili's
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0717854470001 · Chili's · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Pepper jack mac 'n' cheese rotini pasta in a cheese sauce, pepper jack by Chili's scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 36 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 36-component record, beginning with Cooked Enriched Macaroni Product, Water, Durum Semolina. 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.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- None flagged · of 36 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- C
- 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
68/100
Grade B-
Ingredient Safety
100/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
C
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.
54470001 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Pepper jack mac 'n' cheese rotini pasta in a cheese sauce, pepper jack label screening desk
8 of 36 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Ferrous Sulfate). Source sheet 54470001 · 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: Dr. Smoothie, Organic Smoothie Mix, Strawberry Banana · Nearest score peer is Dr. Smoothie, Organic Smoothie Mix, Strawberry Banana at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
Within the four-tier shelf-label framework this site publishes, the composite for this product falls in the highest band. That band is defined by a threshold on the derived score alone: it is where labels land once components carrying caution-or-worse registry ratings contribute little or nothing to the deduction. The band is a summary of what the screened registries return for the components that were parsed, so it inherits their coverage gaps — a component absent from both registries neither raises nor lowers the figure. The threshold and the weighting behind it are set out on the methodology page.
Nutri-Score settled on its middle grade here, the band the algorithm produces when the penalty and credit sides of its nutrient ledger come out close to balanced. A mid-scale grade is a statement about the panel as a whole rather than about any single nutrient, and products arrive at it by very different routes: a moderate profile across every term, or high marks on some offset by heavy penalties on others. The grade is computed separately from the ingredient screen below and the two are not comparable measures.
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 24,982 products we've scored in the Frozen foods category, the average safety score is 92.9/100. Pepper jack mac 'n' cheese rotini pasta in a cheese sauce, pepper jack scores 7.1 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 92.9/100), so it is a comparatively strong 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
Pepper jack mac 'n' cheese rotini pasta in a cheese sauce, pepper jack lists 36 ingredients on its label
36 52nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 52% 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%)
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- 66 products (1%)
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- 112 products (2%)
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- 184 products (3%)
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- 18–20
- 284 products (4%)
- 20–22
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- 284 products (4%)
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- 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
Full Ingredient List
Cooked enriched macaroni product (water, durum semolina [enriched with niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid]), water, half and half (milk, cream), pasteurized process hot pepper jack cheese food (cultured milk, water, skim milk, whey, sodium phosphates, red and green jalapeno peppers, cream, salt, natural flavor, enzymes), pasteurized process monterey jack cheese (cultured milk, water, milkfat, skim milk, sodium phosphates, salt, enzymes), cheddar club cheese (cheddar cheese [cultured milk, salt, enzymes], water, salt, lactic acid), less than 2% of modified food starch, dried red and green bell peppers, canola oil, disodium phosphate, pepperjack cheese flavor (cheese [including monterey jack and cheddar {pasteurized milk, cultures, salt, enzymes}], water, natural flavors, sodium phosphates), salt, xanthan gum, spice.
Other products containing Pasteurized Process Hot Pepper Jack Cheese Food
Pasteurized Process Hot Pepper Jack Cheese Food is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 4 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Pepper jack mac 'n' cheese rotini pasta in a cheese sauce, pepper jack
Neighbours outside Chili's with screening scores in the same high band as Pepper jack mac 'n' cheese rotini pasta in a cheese sauce, pepper jack (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Chili's; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (100/100 here, no caution flags on the parsed list).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (36 on 0717854470001).
Trace this label’s coverage
Trace this label’s coverage
8 of 36 parsed ingredients on Pepper jack mac 'n' cheese rotini pasta in a cheese sauce, pepper jack match at least one source registry. Use the ingredient records to see which entries carry source context and which remain unmatched.
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This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0717854470001: 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.