Goya Country Style Rice & Cheese Sauce, Broccoli & Cheddar
Goya Foods, Inc. · Flavored Rice Dishes · barcode 00041331026673
What stands out
- From the label
The ingredients list Partially hydrogenated oils, Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine) and Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), which have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA; EU warning label. Details
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- Additives3 ingredients have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA; EU warning label. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of flavored rice dishes show what's typical. See levels
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2021-07-29). 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.
- US (FDA): Allowed Source. Applies to Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow).
- EU: Allowed with warning label (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, Annex V) Source. Applies to Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow).
- California: Banned in school meals from 2027-12-31 Banned in food and drinks offered in California public schools from December 31, 2027. (AB 2316 (2024)) Source. Applies to Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow).
- West Virginia: Banned from 2028-01-01 Food containing it is treated as adulterated in West Virginia from January 1, 2028. (HB 2354 (2025)) Source. Applies to Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow).
- West Virginia: Banned in school meals from 2025-08-01 Banned in West Virginia school meals since August 1, 2025. (HB 2354 (2025)) Source. Applies to Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow).
- Louisiana: Banned in school meals from 2028-2029 school year Banned in Louisiana school food from the 2028-2029 school year (concession stands and vending machines exempt). (SB 14, Act 463 (2025)) Source. Applies to Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow).
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
Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine) (E102)
Only the shared rules above.
Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow) (E110)
Only the shared rules above.
Typical for flavored rice dishes
FDA doesn't test this exact kind of food, so these are the closest foods it does test. Treat them as a rough guide.
- Cadmium: typically 6.2 ppb (FDA, 54 samples, 2017-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 2.1 kg (4.6 lb) a day; an adult at about 9.6 kg (21 lb).One serving (0.25 cup, 45 g, from the label):2% of a toddler's daily limitunder 1% of an adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 53.5 ppb (FDA, 54 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Lead, Mercury: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Rice, brown, cooked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Rice, white, enriched, cooked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Rice, brown, cooked: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 7.98, highest 17 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Rice, white, enriched, cooked: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 6.54, highest 23 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Rice, brown, cooked: found in 8 of 27 samples, average 0.36, highest 1.5 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Rice, white, enriched, cooked: found in 1 of 27 samples, average 0.05, highest 1.4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Rice, brown, cooked: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 64.3, highest 88 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Rice, white, enriched, cooked: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 44.8, highest 75 ppb (2017-2020)
- Inorganic arsenic in Rice, white, enriched, cooked: found in 1 of 1 sample, average 41.6, highest 41.6 ppb (2019)
- Perchlorate in Rice, white, enriched, cooked: found in 3 of 20 samples, average 0.55, highest 6 ppb (2008-2012)
Left out of the summary above: Inorganic arsenic, Perchlorate. FDA measured them in only some of these foods, so the result describes those foods, not the whole kind.
"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)
LONG GRAIN PAR-BOILED RICE ENRICHED WITH IRON (FERRIC ORTHOPHOSPHATE), NICACIN, THIAMINE (THIAMINE MONONITRATE) AND FOLIC ACID, CHEESE BLEND FLAVOR (WHEY, SALT, LACTOSE, MALTODEXTRIN, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN AND COTTONSEED OIL, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, CHEDDAR, ROMANO AND PARMESAN CHEESE BLEND [PASTEURIZED COW'S MILK, SALT, ANNATTO EXTRACT, CULTURE, ENZYMES], NONFAT DRY MILK, SILICON DIOXIDE (TO PREVENT CAKING), NATURAL FLAVORS, SUGAR, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, CITRIC ACID, FD&C YELLOW #5, FD&C YELLOW LAKE #5, FD&C YELLOW #6), DEHYDRATED ONION, DEHYDRATED BROCCOLI, SALT, PARSLEY FLAKES, ANNATTO POWDER, TURMERIC.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-07-29. Labels change; check the package.