Shells & Cheese Original Mac and Cheese Dinner

Breakdown

Ultra-processed · 4 ingredients to avoid

Velveeta Shells & Cheese Original Mac and 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, 13g protein and 4g 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.

Velveeta Shells & Cheese Original Mac and Cheese Dinner lists 25 ingredients, starting with Wheat Flour, Niacin, Ferrous Sulfate, Iron and Thiamin Mononitrate. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

370 kcal per serving, or 330 kcal per 100g. Calories are only part of the picture — Tallow scores Velveeta Shells & Cheese Original Mac and Cheese Dinner on what the ingredients are, not how many calories they carry.

At 5/100 Velveeta Shells & Cheese Original Mac and Cheese Dinner scores worse than most prepared meals we have scored. A higher-scoring option in prepared meals is Amy's Organic Medium Chili at 100/100.