Is it true that Kraft Mac and Cheese have had their ingredients changed?

Yes, they changed. No, it doesn’t affect me, as it means they have made the poison react more slowly, but I don’t eat it.

Yes, they changed from artificial ingredients to natural, but they are still so heavily processed that it is no healthier.

I eat boxed mac & cheese about 3 times a year, and Kraft about every 2 years. So the change is trivial for me.

But I just came in to say that using yogurt instead of milk is an easy way to make the boxed stuff 200% better.

If they could make a low sodium mac and cheese that still tasted like something [good], THEN they’d have a revolutionary product!

@ibstubro Good point about the sodium. I have a couple of alternatives on hand and I looked up Kraft.

Sodium per 1 cup serving:

Kraft Macaroni & Cheese Dinner 570mg
Trader Joe’s Organic Shells & White Cheddar 570mg
Annie’s Whole Wheat Shells & White Cheddar 570mg

I can’t eat a lot of sodium. So about 3 times a year looks about right for me.

Vani Hari aka The Food Babe, is a nutjob. There was no reason to change the ingredients. Kraft removed the artificial dyes (yellow 5 and 6) and replaced them with paprika, annatto, and turmeric to maintain the product’s signature, eerily-bright orange colour and it has also removed artificial preservatives. It does bring the product in line with standards here in Europe, though.

I was introduced to Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Dinner in college. When I was a kid, we ate simple, and we ate cheap, but there was a line that wasn’t crossed – Kraft M&C was on the wrong side of those tracks.

Kraft M&C was a meal about the time I ate so cheaply that froze milk in ice cube trays to make a box of toxic yellow. It’s sort of the American ramen noodle – fast, filling, cheap and salty.

Why on God’s Green Earth would anyone expect it to be free of artificial ingredients, and why would they care. It’s Depression Era gut-waddin that was embraced by the fab 50’s and sustained the baby-boomers.

In all honestly, I don’t recall owning a box since the 80’s, and have no plans to change that.

Kraft Changed Its Mac and Cheese and Nobody Noticed

@jaytkay Thank you for the suggestion. My grandkids noticed it was better!

Hi, @YARNLADY, long time no see! Howdy! They might like yogurt & cereal, too, instead of milk.

I am on a yogurt kick. I made it in the oven when I was a teenager. I think I have to try that again.

@jaytkay Thanks, it won’t work on cereal because they would see me put it on. They refuse to eat anything they arent’ used to.