Pasta Dinners · barcode 00000020736095
Original Pasta Shells And Cheese Sauce
Deluxe
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product. Same brand, tested
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- AdditivesNone of the additives we track appear in the ingredients.
- TypicalFDA's tests of pasta dinners show what's typical. See levels
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 (100 g (3½ oz)):14% of a toddler's daily limit3% of a 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, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Noodles, egg, enriched, boiled: found in 2 of 3, average 3.63, highest 6.6 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Spaghetti, enriched, boiled: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from boxed mix: found in 3 of 3, average 11.1, highest 13 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Noodles, egg, enriched, boiled: found in 3 of 3, average 22.3, highest 26 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Spaghetti, enriched, boiled: found in 3 of 3, average 27.7, highest 32 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from boxed mix: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Noodles, egg, enriched, boiled: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Spaghetti, enriched, boiled: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from boxed mix: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Noodles, egg, enriched, boiled: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Spaghetti, enriched, boiled: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from box mix: found in 19 of 20, average 3.5, highest 5 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Noodles, egg, enriched, boiled: found in 3 of 20, average 0.45, highest 7 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Spaghetti, enriched, boiled: found in 0 of 20, 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.
Same brand, tested
Different items from the same brand that a lab has tested. Not this exact product.
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 MACARONI (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, IRON [FERROUS SULFATE], THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID); CHEESE SAUCE (WATER, CHEDDAR CHEESE [PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES], SOYBEAN OIL, WHEY [FROM MILK], MALTODEXTRIN, NATURAL FLAVORS, NONFAT DRY MILK, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, SALT, BETA CAROTENE AND PAPRIKA EXTRACT [COLOR], SODIUM ALGINATE, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, LACTIC ACID, XANTHAN GUM, SORBIC ACID).
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2019-12-06. Labels change; check the package.