Marie Callender's Parmesan Fettuccini Pasta With Parsley Flakes In A Creamy Parmesan Cheese Flavored Sauce Easy Sides, Parmesan

Conagra Brands, Inc. · Pasta Dinners · barcode 00050100000820

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 pasta dinners show what's typical. See levels

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2023-08-31). 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 pasta dinners

What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.

Cadmium: typically 22 ppb (FDA, 9 samples, 2018-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 740 g (26 oz) a day; an adult at about 3.4 kg (7.5 lb).
One serving (59 g, from the label):
8% of a toddler's daily limit
2% of an 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 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Noodles, egg, enriched, boiled: found in 2 of 3 samples, average 3.63, highest 6.6 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Spaghetti, enriched, boiled: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
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 Noodles, egg, enriched, boiled: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 22.3, highest 26 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Spaghetti, enriched, boiled: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 27.7, highest 32 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from boxed mix: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Noodles, egg, enriched, boiled: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Spaghetti, enriched, boiled: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
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 Noodles, egg, enriched, boiled: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Spaghetti, enriched, boiled: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
Perchlorate in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from box mix: found in 19 of 20 samples, average 3.5, highest 5 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in Noodles, egg, enriched, boiled: found in 3 of 20 samples, average 0.45, highest 7 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in Spaghetti, enriched, boiled: found in 0 of 20 samples, 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.

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, SODIUM CITRATE, CITRIC ACID), MALTODEXTRIN, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN AND COTTONSEED OIL, SALT, PALM OIL, LES THAN 2% OF: EMULSIFIER (PROPYLENE GLYCOL MONO & DIESTERS OF FATTY ACIDS, CITRIC ACID), PARMESAN CHEESE POWDER (PARMESAN CHEESE [ PARTIALLY SKIM MILK, CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES], DISODIUM PHOSPHATE), GARLIC POWDER, MONOGLYCERIDES, COLOR BLEND (MALTODEXTRIN, TITANIUM DIOXIDE, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, GUM ARABIC), MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE, AUTOLYZED YEAST AND DRIED YEAST (CONTAINS BREWERS YEAST FROM BARLEY), DISODIUM INOSINATE & DISODIUM GUANYLATE, FLAVORING, LACTIC ACID, PARSLEY, SILICON DIOXIDE (TO PREVENT CAKING), XANTHAN GUM.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-08-31. Labels change; check the package.

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