Marie Callender's Country Fried Pork Premium Breaded Pork Patties, Home-style Country Gravy Pouches, Country Fried Pork
Marie Callender's Retail Foods · Other Frozen Meats · barcode 00021131508432
What stands out
- From the label
The ingredients list Partially hydrogenated oils, which has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA. Details
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- Additives1 ingredient has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of other frozen meats show what's typical. See levels
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2022-12-22). Recipes change, so check the package you have.
Rules that apply to more than one of these
- Texas: Warning label required from 2027-01-01 Labels developed on or after January 1, 2027 must warn that the product contains an ingredient not recommended for consumption in Australia, Canada, the EU or the UK. (SB 25 (2025)) Source. Applies to all of them.
- Louisiana: Warning label required from 2028-01-01 Products containing it must carry a QR code disclosure from January 1, 2028. (SB 14, Act 463 (2025)) Source. Applies to all of them.
Partially hydrogenated oils
- US (FDA): Authorization revoked FDA determined in 2015 that they are no longer generally recognized as safe; makers had to remove them, with final compliance dates in 2018-2020. Labels on file may predate that. (80 FR 34650 (2015)) Source
Bleached flour
- US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows bleached flour. Source
Typical for other frozen meats
FDA doesn't test this exact kind of food, so these are the closest foods it does test. Treat them as a rough guide.
- Arsenic (total): typically 3.03 ppb (FDA, 81 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Perchlorate: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Beef steak, loin/sirloin, oven-roasted: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Beef, ground, pan-cooked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Pork chop, pan-cooked with oil: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Beef steak, loin/sirloin, oven-roasted: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Beef, ground, pan-cooked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Pork chop, pan-cooked with oil: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Beef steak, loin/sirloin, oven-roasted: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Beef, ground, pan-cooked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Pork chop, pan-cooked with oil: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Beef steak, loin/sirloin, oven-roasted: found in 25 of 27 samples, average 5.56, highest 21 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Beef, ground, pan-cooked: found in 24 of 27 samples, average 4.06, highest 8.5 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Pork chop, pan-cooked with oil: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Perchlorate in Beef steak, loin/sirloin, broiled: found in 2 of 20 samples, average 0.4, highest 6 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Beef, ground, regular, pan-cooked: found in 1 of 20 samples, average 0.05, highest 1 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Pork chop, pan-cooked w/ oil: found in 10 of 20 samples, average 12.6, highest 73 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.
Not tested
No published results for this product cover: Metals, Perchlorate, Phthalates (plastic softeners), Phthalate substitutes, Bisphenols. That means nobody has published a test, not that these are absent.
Ingredients (from the label)
PATTIES: BREADED PORK PATTY (PORK, WATER, BREADER [BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, SALT, SPICES, DEXTROSE, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, YEAST, EXTRACTIVES OF PAPRIKA], BATTER [WATER, WHEAT FLOUR, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, YELLOW CORN FLOUR, SALT, SPICES, LEAVENING {SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE}, SOYBEAN OIL, GARLIC POWDER], TEXTURED SOY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, DEXTROSE, SODIUM TRIPOLYPHOSPHATE, SEA SALT, FLAVORING, AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, GRILL FLAVOR [CONTAINS BEEF STOCK, FLAVORINGS, NATURAL SMOKE FLAVORING, SALT, DEHYDRATED HORSERADISH POWDER], FRIED IN VEGETABLE OIL). GRAVY POUCH: GRAVY (WATER, NONFAT DRY MILK, SOYBEAN OIL, ENRICHED FLOUR [BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], UNSALTED BUTTER [PASTEURIZED CREAM, NATURAL FLAVORS], CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: MODIFIED CORN STARCH, SALT, CHICKEN BASE [ROASTED CHICKEN, SALT, HYDROLYZED WHEAT GLUTEN, FLAVORINGS {CONTAINS HYDROLYZED CORN, SOY, WHEAT GLUTEN PROTEIN, YEAST EXTRACT, TORULA YEAST}, SUGAR, MALTODEXTRIN, CHICKEN EXTRACT, CHICKEN FAT, CARROT POWDER, MUSHROOM POWDER, TURMERIC {COLOR}, DISODIUM INOSINATE, DISODIUM GUANYLATE, XANTHAN GUM], ONION POWDER, YEAST EXTRACT, GARLIC POWDER, SPICES, CARAMEL COLOR, XANTHAN GUM).
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2022-12-22. Labels change; check the package.