Easy Mac Original Flavor Macaroni & Cheese Dinner

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Ultra-processed · 10 ingredients to avoid

Kraft Easy Mac Original Flavor Macaroni & Cheese Dinner scores 5/100 on Tallow — our avoid band. That number comes from what is on the label: the ingredients, how processed it is, and what it is packaged in. Per serving it carries 1g fiber, 7g protein and 5g sugar. It is not a verdict on your diet — Tallow does not weigh calories, portion size or how often you eat it, so a high score means the ingredients are clean, not that the food is unlimited.

Kraft Easy Mac Original Flavor Macaroni & Cheese Dinner lists 40 ingredients, starting with Enriched Macaroni Product, Wheat Flour, Glyceryl Monostearate, Niacin and Ferrous Sulfate. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

240 kcal per serving, or 413 kcal per 100g. Calories are only part of the picture — Tallow scores Kraft Easy Mac Original Flavor Macaroni & Cheese Dinner on what the ingredients are, not how many calories they carry.

At 5/100 Kraft Easy Mac Original Flavor Macaroni & Cheese Dinner scores worse than most pasta & noodles we have scored. A higher-scoring option in pasta & noodles is Rao's Homemade Spaghetti at 100/100.