Macaroni Salad — ENGINEERED
Munch or Dump rates Macaroni Salad by King Soopers City Market ENGINEERED — score 30/90.
Refined pasta drenched in soybean-oil mayo sweetened with high fructose corn syrup. It's the hyper-palatable triad on a plate, propped up with EDTA preservative.
Why this verdict
- Hyper-palatable triad: refined pasta + soybean-oil mayo + high fructose corn syrup
- High fructose corn syrup adds sugar with zero nutritional benefit
- Soybean oil mayo makes this 60%+ of calories from fat
- Calcium disodium EDTA preservative flags an industrial NOVA 4 formula
- Enriched/refined semolina spikes blood sugar fast
Ingredients (8)
- Cooked Macaroni (Enriched Semolina Wheat Flour, Egg White) (moderate) — Refined wheat pasta, enriched back with synthetic vitamins — fast carbs, no intact whole grain or meaningful fiber.
- Mayonnaise (Soybean Oil base) (moderate) — Refined seed-oil and egg-yolk emulsion; calorie-dense and high in omega-6 fats.
- High Fructose Corn Syrup (concerning) — A second refined sweetener stacked on the first; fructose load is linked to fatty liver and metabolic strain.
- Egg Yolks (safe) — Standard mayo emulsifier from real eggs.
- vinegar (safe) — Acid for tang and preservation; benign.
- Sweet Pickle (moderate) — Cucumber sweetened with more HFCS and carrying its own preservatives and polysorbate 80.
- calcium disodium edta (moderate) — Chelating preservative to retain freshness, a clear processed-food marker
- Salt (moderate) — Ready meals tend to run salt-heavy; watch the sodium.