Mac & Cheese With Ham
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0738912022604 · Boston Market · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Mac & Cheese With Ham by Boston Market scores 85/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 61 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 61-component record, beginning with Water, Cooked Macaroni Product, Semolina Enriched With Iron. 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 61 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
60/100
Grade C+
Ingredient Safety
85/100
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.
12022604 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Mac & Cheese With Ham label screening desk
15 of 61 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sodium Nitrite). Source sheet 12022604 · 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: Graham pie crust · Nearest score peer is Graham pie crust 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.
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. Mac & Cheese With Ham 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
Mac & Cheese With Ham lists 61 ingredients on its label
61 89th percentile a longer ingredient list than 89% of the 7,008 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 11 products (0%)
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- 54 products (1%)
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- 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 61 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Water, cooked macaroni product (semolina enriched with iron, niacin, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), cooked diced ham (ham, water, salt, sugar, sodium phosphate, sodium erythorbate, natural smoke flavor, sodium nitrite), half and half (milk, cream), 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]), cheddar club cheese (cheddar cheese [pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes], water, salt, annatto [color]), less than 2% of modified food starch, canola oil, panko bread crumbs (unbleached wheat flour, cane sugar, yeast, sea salt), cheese flavor (cheddar cheese [pasteurized milk, cultures, salt, enzymes], water, yeast extract, natural flavors, disodium phosphate, xanthan gum), maltodextrin, salt, rice wine vinegar (water, rice), yeast extract, disodium phosphate, flavor (maltodextrin, nonfat dry milk, milkfat, natural flavor, salt, disodium phosphate), blue cheese powder (blue cheese [pasteurized milk, salt, cheese culture, enzymes]), xanthan gum, natural flavor (cheddar cheese [milk, cultures, salt, enzymes], maltodextrin, whey powder, modified corn starch, natural flavor, disodium phosphate, milkfat), natural parmesan flavor (parmesan cheese [milk, culture, salt, enzymes], water, nonfat dry milk, disodium phosphate, salt), mustard flour, spice, vital wheat gluten.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Mac & Cheese With Ham
Neighbours outside Boston Market with screening scores in the same high band as Mac & Cheese With Ham (85/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Boston Market; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 61 on 0738912022604).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (61 on 0738912022604).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Sodium Nitrite is the first flagged ingredient selected from Mac & Cheese With Ham's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 61-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Sodium Nitrite. Open Sodium Nitrite
- Compare Mac & Cheese With Ham'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 0738912022604: 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.