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Macaroni or noodles with cheese, microwaveable, unprepared

Not checked yet · database values 388 kcal per 100 g

Not checked for absorption yet: these are the listed values.

Not checked yet: the numbers below are what the database lists.

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What 100 g gives you: imported foods have no serving size yet.

Your body needs enough of each of these. Past enough, more doesn’t help. Amounts are what the food databases list, not what your body absorbs, unless a row says it was measured.

The words: “A lot” means one serving gives 20% or more of Health Canada’s daily amount, “Some” 10% to 19%, “A little” 2% to 9%, “Almost none” under 2%. Strongest word first; within a word, protein and fibre lead, then the biggest share.

A milligram (mg) is a thousandth of a gram, and a microgram (µg) a thousandth of a milligram: 1,000 µg make 1 mg.

10 more nutrients below “a lot”

Missing from our databases for this food, so left out, not counted as zero: vitamin C, niacin, vitamin D, omega-3: ALA and omega-3: EPA + DHA.

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Not checked yet, and nothing is on file for foods like it either. That means unknown, not clean.

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Name in the database: Macaroni or noodles with cheese, microwaveable, unprepared

Listed nutrients, per 100 g

For each nutrient, the value this page uses is marked “used”. A row marked “second database” is another database’s figure for a matching food, kept so you can see how far databases disagree (they can differ in the samples analysed, lab methods and rounding). Its own cells are worked out from it, but none of the page’s words or scores are.

NutrientPer 100 caloriesHowSourceGrade
Calcium328 mg84.54 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #169776C
Carbohydrate70.75 g18.23 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #169776C
Choline36 mg9.28 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #169776C
Energy388 kcal–FDC Energy (kcal) usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy)–
Fat6.56 g1.69 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #169776C
Fibre1.6 g0.41 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #169776C
Folate204 µg52.58 µglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #169776C
Iron2.36 mg0.61 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #169776C
Magnesium49 mg12.63 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #169776C
Phosphorus328 mg84.54 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #169776C
Potassium348 mg89.69 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #169776C
Protein11.48 g2.96 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #169776C
Riboflavin (B2)0.626 mg0.16 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #169776C
Selenium47.5 µg12.24 µglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #169776C
Sodium902 mg232.47 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #169776C
Sugars8.2 g2.11 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #169776C
Thiamin (B1)1.04 mg0.27 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #169776C
Vitamin A99 µg25.52 µglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #169776C
Vitamin B120.77 µg0.2 µglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #169776C
Vitamin B60.142 mg0.04 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #169776C
Vitamin E0.13 mg0.03 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #169776C
Vitamin K10.2 µg0.05 µglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #169776C
Water8.07 g2.08 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #169776C
Zinc1.23 mg0.32 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #169776C
NutrientPer 100 gPer 100 caloriesHowSourceGrade
Beta-carotene5 µg1.29 µglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #169776C
Copper0.193 mg0.05 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #169776C
Lutein + zeaxanthin15 µg3.87 µglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #169776C
Niacin (B3, preformed)3.882 mg1 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #169776C
Retinol98 µg25.26 µglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #169776C

Change the amount to rescale the first column. Nutrients a database doesn't list are missing, not zero.

Sources

Body map 2026-10-25.1: each nutrient’s job comes from an agency fact sheet, linked beside it under Good for.

The plain words: “a lot” means one serving (100 g when the food has no serving size) gives at least 20% of the daily amount (the reference intake), “some” at least 10%, “a little” at least 2% (the cut-offs are ours, one set for every page: 20% and 10% are borrowed from the US labelling terms “high” and “good source” and applied to Health Canada’s daily amount, whereas Health Canada’s own shopper rule says 15%; provisional: they may change in a later method version). The daily amount is Health Canada’s Dietary Reference Intake for adults 19–30; where men and women need different amounts we use the higher one (protein: 56 g for men, 46 g for women). The percentage printed under each nutrient is the printed amount as a share of that daily amount, rounded to the nearest whole number, and the word is read from that percentage, so the amount, the percentage and the word always agree. Calcium with a measured absorption is scaled by how well it gets in compared with milk.

The scale: “Nothing to watch” means a serving a day stays under the limit at ordinary amounts; “Go easy” means a serving a day can push past the limit for adults who already take in the most, or fewer than 2 servings reach it; “Limit it” means once a week or less. The dataset’s own rating is under “How we got this”. Provisional: the scale may change in a later method version.

Measured absorption under Good for: grade-A studies in adults that tested this preparation of this food, as a share of the listed amount (the share digested, for protein), quoted once each source has passed our evidence check; animal studies and other variants stay in the table above. Provisional: this screen may change in a later method version.