Bacon Mac 'N' Cheese
by Chili's
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0717854470643 · Chili's · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Bacon Mac 'N' Cheese by Chili's scores 85/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 60 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 60-component record, beginning with Cooked Macaroni Product, Semolina Enriched With Iron, Niacin. 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.
- 85/100
- Caution safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 60 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
55/100
Grade C
Ingredient Safety
85/100
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.
54470643 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Bacon Mac 'N' Cheese label screening desk
14 of 60 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sodium Nitrite). Source sheet 54470643 · 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: Four-cheese Chicken & Rice · Nearest score peer is Four-cheese Chicken & Rice 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 24,982 products we've scored in the Frozen foods category, the average safety score is 92.9/100. Bacon Mac 'N' Cheese scores 7.9 points below that category average (85/100 vs. 92.9/100), 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 Frozen foods products
Bacon Mac 'N' Cheese lists 60 ingredients on its label
60 89th percentile a longer ingredient list than 89% of the 7,008 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 11 products (0%)
- 2–4
- 54 products (1%)
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- 66 products (1%)
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- 102 products (1%)
- 10–12
- 112 products (2%)
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- 184 products (3%)
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- 205 products (3%)
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- 245 products (3%)
- 18–20
- 284 products (4%)
- 20–22
- 264 products (4%)
- 22–24
- 298 products (4%)
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- 247 products (4%)
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- 284 products (4%)
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- 325 products (5%)
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- 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
How the 85/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 60 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Cooked macaroni product (semolina enriched with iron, niacin, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, half and half (milk, cream), whole milk mozzarella cheese (pasteurized whole milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, smoke [liquid]), cheddar cheese (pasteurized milk, cultures, salt, enzymes, annatto [color]), poblano chili peppers, natural uncured bacon ([pork, water, salt, turbinado sugar, brown sugar, seasoning [cultured celery juice powder, sea salt), lactic acid starter culture] no nitrate or nitrite added except for those naturally occurring in sea salt and celery juice powder), pasteurized process cheese spread (american cheese [pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes], water, whey, sodium phosphate, contains less than 2% of milkfat, salt, sodium-alginate, lactic acid, apocarotenal [color]), provolone cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), cheddar club cheese (cheddar cheese [pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes], water, salt, annatto [color]), less than 2% of asiago cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), fully cooked bacon (bacon [cured with water, salt, sugar, sodium phosphates, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite]), rendered bacon-flavored fat, canola oil, modified food starch, disodium phosphate, maltodextrin, smoked paprika (paprika, natural smoke flavor), xanthan gum, spice.
Other products containing Rendered Bacon-flavored Fat
Rendered Bacon-flavored Fat is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 3 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
More from Chili's
High-score cross-brand comparables for Bacon Mac 'N' Cheese
Neighbours outside Chili's with screening scores in the same high band as Bacon Mac 'N' Cheese (85/100 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 (1 flagged of 60 on 0717854470643).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (60 on 0717854470643).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Sodium Nitrite is the first flagged ingredient selected from Bacon Mac 'N' Cheese's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 60-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sodium Nitrite. Open Sodium Nitrite
- Compare Bacon Mac 'N' Cheese'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 0717854470643: 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.