Meals Roundup
We analyzed 2045 products to help you choose the healthiest & safest options.
Detailed Reviews (Page 56)

EVERYDAY DAL RED LENTIL, BUTTERNUT SQUASH & COCONUT
Ingredients: RED LENTILS* (WATER, RED LENTILS*), WATER, BUTTERNUT SQUASH*, COCONUT CREAM* (EXTRACTED COCONUT*, WATER), VIRGIN COCONUT OIL*, RED JALAPEÑO PEPPER*, SEA SALT, SUNFLOWER OIL*, BROWN MUSTARD SEEDS*, LEMON JUICE CONCENTRATE*, CUMIN SEED*, TURMERIC*, CAYENNE*.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Chili with Beans
Ingredients: water, beef, cooked beans, tomatoes, modified food starch, textured soy protein (soy protein concentrate, caramel color), jalapeño peppers (jalapeño peppers, salt, acetic acid), sugar, sea salt, flavorings (including extractives of paprika), dehydrated onions, masa harina, dehydrated green peppers, dehydratéd red peppers, paprika, citric acid, caramel color, contains soy,
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

CHICKEN BROTH
Ingredients: Chicken stock, contains less than 2% of: yeast extract, dehydrated chicken, natural flavoring, carrot juice concentrate, celeriac juice concentrate, chicken fat, onion extract.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Classic mild cheddar macaroni cheese
Ingredients: Organic pasta (organic wheat flour), organic whey, organic cultured cream, organic nonfat milk, salt, organic butter (organic pasteurized cream, salt), organic dried cheddar cheese (organic cultured pasteurized milk, salt, non-animal enzymes), organic corn starch, organic annatto extract (for color), citric acid, lactic acid, sodium phosphate, silicon dioxide (for anticaking).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Organic Brown Basmati Rice
Ingredients: Water, whole grain brown basmati rice*, sunflower oil*, soy lecithin.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Beefaroni Pasta in Tomato and Meat Sauce
Ingredients: Water, Tomato puree (water, tomato paste), Pasta (durum wheat semolina), Beef, Sugars (sugar/glucose-fructose), Textured vegetable protein (soy flour, caramel), Salt, Modified corn starch, Sea salt, Processed cheese spread, Flavour, Spice extracts, Potassium chloride, Citric acid (acidulant)
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

BEANS with tomato sauce
Ingredients: Beans, tomatoes, water, sugar, modified cornflour, spirit vinegar, salt, natural flavors.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

All natural four bean salad
Ingredients: Beans (green, kidney, ceci, wax), sugar, onions, vinegar, dextrose, water, red peppers, sea salt, spice.
The Good
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Maruchan instant lunch beef ramen noodle baby count
Ingredients: salt, sugar, contains less than 1% of: maltodextrin, monosodium glutamate, lactose, dehydrated soy sauce (wheat, soybeans, salt), caramel color, spices, beef fat,yeast extract, hydrolyzed corn, wheat and soy protein, dehydrated vegetables (onion, garlic, chive), natural flavor, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Organic Shells and White Cheddar Macaroni & Cheese
Ingredients: organic pasta shells (organic durum wheat, organic wheat), organic white cheddar cheese (organic cultured pasteurized milk, salt, non-animal enzymes) organic whey, salt, disodium phosphate, silicon dioxide (anticaking agent).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

mini Vegetable Samosas
Ingredients: FILLING (POTATOES, CARROTS, PEAS, LENTILS, ONION, EXPELLER PRESSED CANOLA OIL, CILANTRO, SALT, SPICES, GARLIC, CITRIC ACID, TURMERIC (FLAVOR]), PASTRY (WATER, UNBLEACHED ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, ASCORBIC ACID, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, AMYLASE, FOLIC ACIDI, EXPELLER PRESSED CANOLA OIL, SALT, DISTILLED VINEGAR).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Vegetable Fried Rice
Ingredients: COOKED RICE (RICE, WATER), CARROTS, EDAMAME (SOYBEANS), CORN, GREEN PEAS, LEEKS, RED BELL PEPPERS, SOY SAUCE (WATER, SOYBEANS, WHEAT. SALT), SWEET COOKING RICE WINE (WATER, MIRIN [WATER, RICE, ALCOHOL, SALI, KUI (ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE}], SUGAR, LACTIC ACID). CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF CANOLA OIL, SUGAR, ONIONS, SEAWEED EXTRACT (WATER, KELP EXTRACT, DEXTRIN, ALCOHOL, SALT, XANTHAN GUM), SALT, SESAME OIL.
The Good
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Campbell's chunky soup beef & barley
Ingredients: Water, beef stock, seasoned beef - beef broth and modified Cornstarch product (beef, beef broth, salt, modified cornstarch, sodium phosphate, Spice), carrots, potatoes, toasted barley, celery, peas, corn, Contains less than 2% of: tomato paste, modified cornstarch, dried onions, sugar, monosodium glutamate, salt, yeast extract, caramel color, lactic acid, spice, hydrolyzed wheat gluten, hydrolyzed soy protein, flavoring. Contains: Wheat, soy Contains bioengineered food ingredients. The ingredients from corn, soy and sugar in this product come from genetically modified crops.
The Good
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Cilantro Limón Jasmine Rice
Ingredients: Water, jasmine rice, sunflower oil, cilantro, sea salt, natural flavor, lime juice, sunflower lecithin (emulsifier), glucone delta lactone.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
- ● Clean Ingredients
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Kimbap Korean Tofu and Vegetable Seaweed Rice Roll
Ingredients: Seasoned Rice: water, rice, sesame oil, salt, toasted sesame seeds, soybean oil, distilled vinegar. Fried Tofu and Braised Burdock Root: water, sliced fried tofu (soybeans, water, soybean oil, calcium chloride, canola oil, calcium carbonate), burdock root, corn syrup, soy sauce (water, fermented soybeans, salt), cane sugar. Stir-Fried Carrot: carrot, soybean oil, salt. Pickled Radish: salted radish (radish, salt), cane sugar, water, distilled vinegar, salt, lemon juice concentrate. Seasoned Spinach: spinach, sesame oil, toasted sesame seeds, salt. Seaweed. Contains soy, sesame.
The Good
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Contains Corn Syrup

SPANISH STYLE RICE
Ingredients: water, white rice, sunflower and/or soybean oil, seasoning (salt, dehydrated onion, spices, dehydrated garlic, paprika, tomato powder, yeast extract, maltodextrin, natural flavor, citric acid [acidulant], paprika oleoresin [color]).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Parmesan Cheese Flavor Pasta
Ingredients: wheat flour, palm oil, whey, salt, corn syrup solids, parmesan cheese (milk, cultures, salt, enzymes), monosodium glutamate, cultured nonfat buttermilk, maltodextrin, natural flavor, sodium caseinate, modified cornstarch, potassium phosphate, parsley*, onions*, basil, lactic acid, niacinamide, ferrous sulfate, thiamin mononitrate, yellow 5, yellow 6 lake, yellow 6, riboflavin, folic acid, *dried
The Good
- ● Convenient Snack
The Bad
- ● Contains Corn Syrup

Organic roasted vegetable pizza
Ingredients: ingredients organig wheat flour water, organic tomato pubee organic mozzarella cheese (organic milk sa microbial rennet starter coltope organic seasoned eggplant (organic grilled eggplant, organic sunfloweron organic parsley, salt) organic seasoned zucchini (organic grilled zucchini organic sunflower oil organic parsley salt), organic cheese sauce (organic cream, water, organic fontal cheese [organic milk, salt, microbial bennetl organic tapioca starch, salt, zanthan gum), organic red onion, organic grilled yellow peppers, organic grilled red peppers, organic extra virgin olive oil, organic aged cheese (organic milk, salt, microbial rennet, starter culture), salt, organic sunflower oil, organic sourdough (organic wheat flour, water, amylase, dough conditioner: ascorbic acid [vitamin ci), organic durum wheat semolina, organic garlic, yeast, organic black pepper, organic chili pepper. contains wheat, milk, may contain traces of soy.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Buttery Homestyle Mashed Potatoes
Ingredients: Idaho potatoes, vegetable oil (contains one or more of the following: coconut, palm, soybean, cottonseed, sunflower, canola), corn syrup solids, salt, maltodextrin, nonfat dry milk, sugar, sodium caseinate, butter powder [butter (sweet cream, salt, annatto color), nonfat milk solids, sodium caseinate and disodium phosphate], mono and diglycerides, calcium stearoyl lactylate, natural and artificial flavors (milk, soy), spice, sodium acid pyrophosphate (preserve freshness), sodium bisulfite (preserve freshness), dipotassium phosphate, artificial color, citric acid (preserve freshness), mixed tocopherols (preserve freshness) and less than 2% silicon dioxide added as an anti-caking agent.
The Good
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Contains Corn Syrup

Chicken Tikka Masala
Ingredients: WHITE CHICKEN, TIKKA SAUCE [TOMATO PASTE, WATER, CREAM, CANE SUGAR, GINGER EXPELLER PRESSED CANOLA OIL, VINEGAR, GARLIC, CHICKPEA FLOUR, ONIONS, SPICES, BUTTER (CULTURED CREAM, SALT), SAUCE CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF RICE FLOUR, SALT, JALAPEÑO, CARAMELIZED ONION (ONIONS, EXPELLER PRESSED CANOLA OIL), CURRY PASTE (GARLIC, LEMONGRASS, SPICES, SALT, SHALLOT, KAFFIR LIME PEEL, TURMERIC), PAPRIKA OLEORESIN, CILANTRO, ONION POWDER, XANTHAN GUM, TURMERIC POWDER, FENUGREEK LEAVES, GARLIC POWDER, LEMON JUICE CONCENTRATE, CARDAMOM OLEORESIN], WATER, SUGAR, SALT, BAKING SODA. CONTAINS: MILK (CREAM)
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

SLOW SIMMERED SOUP PASTA & FAGIOLI
Ingredients: Water, italian whole peeled tomatoes (tomatoes, tomato juice), navy beans, dark red kidney beans, enriched ditalini pasta (durum semolina [wheat], egg white, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), carrots, celery, corn starch, extra virgin olive oil, onions, sea salt, parmesan cheese (milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), garlic, beef extract, basil, black pepper.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Loopdy-Loos Cavatappi
Ingredients: SEMOLINA (WHEAT), WHEAT FLOUR, CHICKPEA PROTEIN, WHEAT PROTEIN, NUTRIENTS EXTRACTED FROM (BROCCOLI, SPINACH, KALE, PUMPKIN, SWEET POTATO, SUNFLOWER SEED, CRANBERRY, CHLORELLA, MAITAKE MUSHROOM, SHIITAKE MUSHROOM). CONTAINS WHEAT
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Ready Rice Cilantro Lime Flavored
Ingredients: WATER, PARBOILED LONG GRAIN RICE, COCONUT CREAM, CANOLA OIL, CILANTRO; LESS THAN 2% OF: SUGAR, SALT, MALTODEXTRIN, COCONUT OIL MILK CITRIC ACID, GARLIC POWDER, YEAST EXTRACT, NATURAL LIME FLAVORS, SAFFLOWER OIL, NATURAL FLAVORS (CONTAINS MILK), SODIUM CASEINATE, VITAMINS AND MINERALS (CALCIUM (CALCIUM CARBONATE), IRON (IRON PHOSPHATE), VITAMIN B3 (NIACINAMIDE), VITAMIN B1 (THAMINE MONONITRATE), FOLIC ACID), SPICES, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES.
The Good
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Contains Mono- and Diglycerides

Margherita
Ingredients: Toppings: tomatoes, mozzarella cheese (milk, skim milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), low-moisture part-skim mozzarella cheese (part-skim milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), fontina cheese (cultured milk, salt, enzymes), extra virgin olive oil, basil. crust: enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin [vitamin b3], reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate [vitamin b1], riboflavin [vitamin b2], folic acid [vitamin b9]), water, olive oil, sugar, palm oil, sea salt, baking powder (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda, corn starch, monocalcium phosphate). sauce: water, tomato paste, extra virgin olive oil, balsamic vinegar, sea salt, basil.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Classic Alfredo Pasta with Chicken & Broccoli
Ingredients: Pasta and sauce: cooked rigatoni (water, semolina, wheat gluten), skim milk, water, parmesan and asiago cheese blend (parmesan and asiago cheeses [cultured milk, salt, enzymes], flavor [enzyme modified parmesan cheese {cultured milk, water, salt, enzymes}], salt), modified food starch, salt, enzyme modified parmesan cheese paste (parmesan cheese [cultured part-skim milk, salt, enzymes], water, whey protein concentrate [from milk], reduced fat milk, milk protein concentrate, enzymes, nonfat milk, cultures), butter (cream, salt), potassium chloride, autolyzed yeast extract, spices, carrageenan, maltodextrin, garlic, lactic acid, calcium lactate, wheat starch, flavoring, lipolyzed cream (butter, nonfat milk solids), sodium citrate, extractives of turmeric and annatto color, natural flavor. chicken and broccoli: cooked white meat chicken, broccoli, water, isolated soy protein, modified rice starch, seasoning (dried chicken broth, chicken powder, natural flavor), salt, sodium phosphate.
The Good
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Thin And Crispy Pizza
Ingredients: Multigrain crust (wheat flour, water, vegetable oil [canola oil, pure olive oil], flaxseed, yeast, sugar, salt, whole oat flour), low-moisture mozzarella cheese (pasteurized whole milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), sauce (tomato puree [water, tomato paste], extra virgin olive oil, red wine vinegar, salt, spices, garlic*, onion*), cheddar cheese (pasteurized whole milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), asiago cheese (pasteurized whole milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), parmesan cheese (pasteurized whole milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes).
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Chicken Tikka Masala
Ingredients: CHICKEN TIKKA: CHICKEN BREAST, TOMATOES (WHOLE PEELED TOMATOES, TOMATO JUICE, SALT), ONIONS, WATER, CANOLA OIL, YOGURT (CULTURED PASTEURIZED NONFAT MILK, CREAM), CREAM, NONFAT DRY MILK, SPICES, GARLIC, CASHEWS, LEMON JUICE (WATER, CONCENTRATED LEMON JUICE), SALT, BUTTER, SUGAR, POTATO STARCH, SYRUP BLEND (RICE SYRUP, GRAPE JUICE), TAPIOCA STARCH, OLEORESIN OF PAPRIKA, CLARIFIED BUTTER (GHEE), FENUGREEK LEAVES, CILANTRO, TURMERIC, VINEGAR, MANGO POWDER. CUMIN RICE: WATER, BASMATI RICE, CANOLA OIL, CLARIFIED BUTTER (GHEE), CUMIN SEEDS. CONTAINS MILK, CASHEWS
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Chicken Broth
Ingredients: chicken stock, contains 2% or less of salt, sea salt, sugar, yeast extract, natural flavor, carrot juice concentrate, onion powder, chicken fat, artificial flavor, chicken powder,
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Sugar Free
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Mexican Casserole
Ingredients: FILTERED WATER, ORGANIC CORN, ORGANIC CORN MASA (ORGANIC STONEGROUND CORN FLOUR, TRACE OF LIME), ORGANIC BLACK BEANS, MONTEREY JACK CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES), OLIVES, ORGANIC TOMATO PURÉE, EXPELLER PRESSED HIGH OLEIC SAFFLOWER AND/OR SUNFLOWER OIL, ORGANIC SWEET RICE FLOUR, ORGANIC ONIONS, SPICES, SEA SALT, ORGANIC GARLIC, ORGANIC CILANTRO.
The Good
- ● Excellent Health Score
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed

Thai Green Curry with tofu sheets, vegetables and Jasmine Rice
Ingredients: COOKED JASMINE RICE (WATER, JASMINE RICE), COCONUT MILK, TOFU SHEETS (SOYBEAN, WATER), CARROT, COCONUT CREAM (COCONUT, WATER), WATER, EGGPLANT, GREEN CURRY PASTE (GREEN CHILI, LEMON GRASS, GARLIC, SALT, GALANGAL, CORIANDER SEED, LIME PEEL, WHITE PEPPER, CUMIN, TURMERIC), SUGAR, RED CHILI, SOYBEAN OIL, SWEET BASIL, VEGETABLE POWDER BLEND (ONION, CABBAGE, CARROT, SPRING ONION, MALTODEXTRIN, SALT), CUMIN SEED, CORIANDER SEED. CONTAINS SOY, COCONUT.
The Good
- ● Low Sugar
The Bad
- ● Ultra Processed
