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Costa Coffee · Lunch

Mac & Cheese

24
Mac & Cheese

23 g protein · 567 cals · 270 g

Why this score

easy to overeat

Fat and refined carbohydrate converging the way engineered food does; dense calories with little protein, volume or fiber to fill you up.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

17% of kcal
58% water
7 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

2%
22%

How scores work

Per

Calories
567
Protein
(17%)
23 g
Fat
(37%)
23 g
Carbohydrates
(47%)
65 g
of which sugar
6 g
Fiber
4 g
Sodium
560 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Alternatives

Costa Coffee

Higher-scoring, from Costa Coffee’s own “Lunch” in United Kingdom.

Ingredients

Cheese Sauce (MILK, Mature Cheddar Cheese (MILK), Water, Single Cream (MILK), Wheat Flour (WHEAT Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Folic Acid, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Rapeseed Oil, Cornflour, English Mustard (Water, MUSTARD Flour, Salt, Sugar, WHEAT Starch, Turmeric), Salt, White Pepper), Cooked Pasta (Water, Durum WHEAT Semolina), Mature Cheddar Cheese (4.5%) (Mature Cheddar Cheese (MILK), Potato Starch), Parsley Crumb (Wheat Flour (WHEAT Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Folic Acid, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Water, Rapeseed Oil, Salt, Parsley, Yeast).

Nutrition as published by Costa Coffee — check it yourself. Product photograph © Costa Coffee, shown to identify the item. The score measures satiety per calorie. It is not a virtue scale, and no food here is forbidden. How the score works.

All 134 items on the United Kingdom Costa Coffee menu