Shells & Cheese with Bacon, 10.3 oz

Breakdown

Ultra-processed · 6 ingredients to avoid

Velveeta Shells & Cheese with Bacon, 10.3 oz scores 4/100 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.

Velveeta Shells & Cheese with Bacon, 10.3 oz lists 29 ingredients, starting with Skim Milk, Milk, Cheese Culture, Salt and Enzymes. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

321 kcal per 100g. Calories are only part of the picture — Tallow scores Velveeta Shells & Cheese with Bacon, 10.3 oz on what the ingredients are, not how many calories they carry.

At 4/100 Velveeta Shells & Cheese with Bacon, 10.3 oz scores worse than most pasta & noodles we have scored. A higher-scoring option in pasta & noodles is Rao's Homemade Spaghetti at 100/100.