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Conagra Brands, Inc. · Pizza Mixes & Other Dry Dinners · barcode 00050100000653

What stands out

From the label
The ingredients list Partially hydrogenated oils and Titanium dioxide, which have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA; not approved in the EU. Details

Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
Additives2 ingredients have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA; not approved in the EU. Which
TypicalFDA's tests of pizza mixes & other dry dinners 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.

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
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

Titanium dioxide (E171)

US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows it as a color additive, up to 1% of the food's weight. Source
EU: Removed from approved list from 2022-08-07 Removed as a food additive in 2022; food made under the old rules could be sold until August 7, 2022. (Regulation (EU) 2022/63) Source

Typical for pizza mixes & other dry dinners

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 19.1 ppb (FDA, 30 samples, 2017-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 760 g (27 oz) a day; an adult at about 3.6 kg (7.9 lb).
One serving (0.66 cup, 59 g, from the label):
8% of a toddler's daily limit
2% of an adult's daily limit
Arsenic (total): typically 3.33 ppb (FDA, 30 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 Macaroni and cheese, prepared from boxed mix: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Pizza, cheese, fast-food: found in 2 of 27 samples, average 0.32, highest 4.6 ppb (2017-2020)
Cadmium in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from boxed mix: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 11.1, highest 13 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Pizza, cheese, fast-food: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 20.6, highest 25 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from boxed mix: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Pizza, cheese, fast-food: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from boxed mix: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Pizza, cheese, fast-food: found in 25 of 27 samples, average 3.74, highest 6 ppb (2017-2020)
Perchlorate in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from box mix: found in 19 of 20 samples, average 3.5, highest 5 ppb (2008-2012)

Left out of the summary above: Perchlorate. FDA measured it 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)

ENRICHED PASTA (WHEAT FLOUR, GLYCEROL MONOSTEARATE, NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), PARMESAN CHEESE FLAVOR (PARMESAN CHEESE [ PASTEURIZED MILK, SALT, CULTURES, ENZYMES), BUTTERMILK WHEY, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, SALT, LESS THAN 2% OF: PALM OIL, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN AND COTTONSEED OIL, ROMANO CHEESE POWDER (ROMANO CHEESE FROM COW'S MILK [ PASTEURIZED MILK, CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES], DISODIUM PHOSPHATE), COLOR BLEND (MALTODEXTRIN, TITANIUM DIOXIDE, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, GUM ARABIC), DRIED CREAM EXTRACT, GARLIC POWDER, MONOGLYCERIDES, ROMANO CHEESE FLAVOR (MALTODEXTRIN, WHEY SOLIDS, MODIFIED BUTTER OIL, DEHYDRATED BUTTER, MALTODEXTRIN, SALT, GUAR GUM, ANNATTO AND TURMERIC (COLORS), AUTOLYZED YEAST AND BREWERS YEAST, LACTIC ACID, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE, XANTHAN GUM, DISODIUM INOSINATE & DISODIUM GUANYLATE, FLAVORING. SILICON DIOXIDE (TO PREVENT CAKING). CONTAINS: MILK, WHEAT.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-07-29. Labels change; check the package.

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