Dough-based meals to cook (Shelf Stable)
5 products.
Typical levels
FDA doesn't test this exact kind of food; these are the closest foods it does test.
- Cadmium: typically 20 ppb (FDA, 6 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 770 g (27 oz) a day; an adult at about 3.6 kg (7.9 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):13% of a toddler's daily limit3% of a adult's daily limit
- Lead, Mercury, Arsenic (total), Perchlorate: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from boxed mix: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Spaghetti, enriched, boiled: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from boxed mix: found in 3 of 3, average 11.1, highest 13 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Spaghetti, enriched, boiled: found in 3 of 3, average 27.7, highest 32 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from boxed mix: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Spaghetti, enriched, boiled: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from boxed mix: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Spaghetti, enriched, boiled: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from box mix: found in 19 of 20, average 3.5, highest 5 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Spaghetti, enriched, boiled: found in 0 of 20, all below 1 ppb (2008-2012)
"Typically" is FDA's middle sample. Daily amounts use the long-run average and each chemical's daily limit (EPA reference dose, or FDA's level for lead) for a 33-lb toddler and a 154-lb adult. ppb = micrograms per kilogram of food. Source: FDA Total Diet Study.
Products
None of these has published lab results yet.
- Hmbrgr Hlpr Pasta Sauce Mix Bacon Chsbrgr Twin Pk General Mills Sales Inc. · Dough-based meals to cook (Shelf Stable)
- Hmbrgr Hlpr Pasta Chsy Sauce Mix Dlx Chsbrgr Mac Twin Pk General Mills Sales Inc. · Dough-based meals to cook (Shelf Stable)
- Chckn Hlpr Pasta Sauce Mix Crspy Chdr Bacon Chckn General Mills Sales Inc. · Dough-based meals to cook (Shelf Stable)
- Wshbrn Mills Chickpea Rotini Pasta W Lentils General Mills Sales Inc. · Dough-based meals to cook (Shelf Stable)
- Bty Crk Suddenly Pasta Salad Pasta Seas Caesar Twin Pk General Mills Sales Inc. · Dough-based meals to cook (Shelf Stable)