Chef Boyardee Jalapeno Alfredo Pasta In Sauce, Chicken, Chicken
Conagra Brands, Inc. · Chili & Stew · barcode 00064144020850
What stands out
- From the label
The ingredients list Titanium dioxide, which has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not allowed in the EU since 2022. Details
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- Additives1 ingredient has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not allowed in the EU since 2022. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of chili & stew 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.
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
- 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
Typical for chili & stew
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Cadmium: typically 6.25 ppb (FDA, 6 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1.8 kg (4 lb) a day; an adult at about 8.4 kg (19 lb).One serving (7.25 oz, 205 g, from the label):11% of a toddler's daily limit2% of an adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 1.65 ppb (FDA, 6 samples, 2018-2020). 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 Chili con carne with beans, canned: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 2.2, highest 6.6 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Soup, vegetable beef, canned, ready to serve: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Chili con carne with beans, canned: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 6.33, highest 7.3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Soup, vegetable beef, canned, ready to serve: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 10.3, highest 20 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Chili con carne with beans, canned: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Soup, vegetable beef, canned, ready to serve: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Chili con carne with beans, canned: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 3.87, highest 5.3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Soup, vegetable beef, canned, ready to serve: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Chili con carne w/ beans, canned: found in 18 of 20 samples, average 2.39, highest 6 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)
WATER, PASTA (WHEAT FLOUR, DURUM WHEAT SEMOLINA, EGG WHITE), DICED CHICKEN (CHICKEN BREAST WITH RIB MEAT, WATER, MODIFIED RICE STARCH, ISOLATED SOY PROTEIN, SALT, SODIUM PHOSPHATES), HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, LESS THAN 2% OF: MODIFIED CORN STARCH, CREAM, SALT, JALAPENO PEPPERS, NONFAT MILK, DEHYDRATED ONION, TITANIUM DIOXIDE, DEHYDRATED GARLIC, SODIUM CASEINATE, ACETIC ACID, FLAVORING.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2022-12-22. Labels change; check the package.