Simply Mac Roni Three Cheese Pasta with Flavored Sauce

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4 ingredients to avoid

Rice-A-Roni Simply Mac Roni Three Cheese Pasta with Flavored Sauce scores 21/100 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. 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.

Rice-A-Roni Simply Mac Roni Three Cheese Pasta with Flavored Sauce lists 21 ingredients, starting with Wheat Flour, Cheddar Cheese, Swiss Cheese, Monterey Jack Cheese and Natural Flavor. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

At 21/100 Rice-A-Roni Simply Mac Roni Three Cheese Pasta with Flavored Sauce scores worse than most pasta & noodles we have scored. A higher-scoring option in pasta & noodles is Western Family Signature Rigatoni at 99/100.