Chef Boyardee Creamy Tomato Chicken Pasta In Sauce Flavored With White Meat Chicken Big Bowl, Creamy Tomato Chicken

Conagra Brands, Inc. · Entrees, Sides & Small Meals · barcode 00064144753512

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 entrees, sides & small meals 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 entrees, sides & small meals

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 6.65 ppb (FDA, 12 samples, 2018-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 2.2 kg (4.9 lb) a day; an adult at about 10 kg (22 lb).
One serving (1 cup, 246 g, from the label):
11% of a toddler's daily limit
2% of an adult's daily limit
Perchlorate: typically 2 ppb (FDA, 80 samples, 2008-2012). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 5.2 kg (11 lb) a day; an adult at about 24 kg (53 lb).
One serving (1 cup, 246 g, from the label):
5% of a toddler's daily limit
1% of an adult's daily limit
Lead, Mercury, Arsenic (total): usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.

FDA samples behind these numbers

Lead in Chicken potpie, frozen, heated: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
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 Macaroni and cheese, prepared from boxed mix: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Pork and beans, canned: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Chicken potpie, frozen, heated: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 6.63, highest 7.5 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 Macaroni and cheese, prepared from boxed mix: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 11.1, highest 13 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Pork and beans, canned: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 3.13, highest 3.4 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Chicken potpie, frozen, heated: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 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 Macaroni and cheese, prepared from boxed mix: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Pork and beans, canned: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Chicken potpie, frozen, heated: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 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 Macaroni and cheese, prepared from boxed mix: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Pork and beans, canned: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
Perchlorate in Chicken potpie, frozen, heated: found in 14 of 20 samples, average 1.97, highest 7 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in Chili con carne w/ beans, canned: found in 18 of 20 samples, average 2.39, highest 6 ppb (2008-2012)
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 Pork and beans, canned: found in 3 of 20 samples, average 0.16, highest 1.3 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)

TOMATOES (TOMATO PUREE, WATER), WATER, ENRICHED PASTA (DURUM WHEAT SEMOLINA, EGG WHITE, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE [VITAMIN B1], RIBOFLAVIN [VITAMIN B2], FOLIC ACID), COOKED CHICKEN (WHITE MEAT CHICKEN, WATER, MODIFIED RICE STARCH, ISOLATED SOY PROTEIN, SALT, SODIUM PHOSPHATES), LESS THAN 2% OF: HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, SALT, DEHYDRATED ONION, CREAM, TITANIUM DIOXIDE, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, GARLIC POWDER, NONFAT MILK, SPICES, CITRIC ACID, SODIUM CASEINATE.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2022-12-22. Labels change; check the package.

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