Banquet Dumplings & Chicken Hearty Vegetable And White Meat Chicken Stew & Dumpling Mix Homestyle Bakes, Dumplings & Chicken
Conagra Brands, Inc. · Pizza Mixes & Other Dry Dinners · barcode 00050100408879
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 pizza mixes & other dry dinners 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.
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
- 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
- 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
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 (0.25 package, 182 g, from the label):24% of a toddler's daily limit5% 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)
HEARTY VEGETABLE AND WHITE MEAT CHICKEN STEW: WATER, COOKED WHITE MEAT CHICKEN (CHICKEN BREAST WITH RIB MEAT, WATER, MODIFIED RICE STARCH, ISOLATED SOY PROTEIN, SALT, SODIUM PHOSPHATES), CARROTS, POTATOES, CELERY, PEAS, SEASONING BLEND (CREAM POWDER [CREAM, NON-FAT DRY MILK, TOCOPHEROLS, ASCORBYL PALMITATE], CORN STARCH, ONION POWDER, SALT, CHICKEN BROTH, AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, GARLIC POWDER, HYDROLYZED SOY, CORN AND WHEAT PROTEIN, MALTODEXTRIN, CHICKEN FAT, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, DRIED EGG YOLK, DEXTROSE, COOKED CHICKEN, DEHYDRATED CELERY, SUGAR, CHICKEN FLAVOR [CHICKEN SKIN, FLAVOR], DISODIUM INOSINATE & GUANYLATE, CORN SYRUP, CARRAGEENAN GUM, LACTIC ACID, SPICE, TBHQ, CITRIC ACID), MODIFIED CORN STARCH, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: CHICKEN FAT, SALT, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, FLAVOR, CHICKEN BROTH, MALTODEXTRIN, TURKEY BROTH, YEAST EXTRACT, COOKED CHICKEN, DISODIUM GUANYLATE, DISODIUM INOSINATE, BETA CAROTENE POWDER (MALTODEXTRIN, GUM ACACIA, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, SUCROSE, BETA CAROTENE, SODIUM ASCORBATE, DL-ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL), COTTONSEED OIL, MUSHROOM POWDER, TURKEY FAT, TURKEY MEAT. BUTTERMILK DUMPLING MIX: ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), SHORTENING (HIGH OLEIC CANOLA OIL, HYDROGENATED COTTONSEED OIL, CITRIC ACID), DEXTROSE, SODIUM BICARBONATE, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, CULTURED NONFAT BUTTERMILK (SKIM MILK, LACTIC ACID, CULTURES), SALT, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE, WHEY.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2022-12-22. Labels change; check the package.