Cheese sauce is something that you find in any cook's repertoire. A key ingredient in an authentic Hot Brown sandwich, the cheese sauce is sure to enhance flavor, texture and appearance of your dishes and vegetables such as cauliflower, broccoli and asparagus. With cheese sauce, you can make delicious cuisines like pasta and macaroni within a short span of time. Frozen sauce has also become quite popular these days with the chefs and housewives, and you can use it as per the date mentioned on the label. There is a variety of frozen cheese sauces available on shelves that include nacho cheese sauce and cheddar cheese sauce. Let’s take a look at the nutritional facts for these frozen cheese sauces.
- Calories per serving: A typical serving of frozen cheese sauce has been identified as 2 tablespoon over your main food. This single serving contains a total calorie count of 59C. Out of this total count, 40 calories comes from fat. Protein adds 12.5 calories and the rest comes from carbohydrates.
- Fat content: Two tablespoons of frozen cheese sauce that make out to be about 30g of cheese sauce that constitutes of 4.5g of total fat. (Out of this 2.4g is saturated fat and the rest is unsaturated fat).
- Carbohydrates: Carbohydrate content in one serving of cheese sauce is 1.6g without any sugar or starch content.
- Protein: Frozen cheese sauce contains complete proteins as it is made up from cheese which is a dairy product. A complete protein consists of all essential amino acids required by a body to repair and maintain the body tissues. One serving of cheese sauce contains 3.1g of proteins. This amounts to a total of 6 percent of proteins that your body needs in a day.
- Vitamins and Minerals: One serving of frozen cheese sauce is quite nutritious as it consists of all essential vitamins and minerals that are required by body. To be precise, calcium content is 9 percent of your daily requirement and phosphorous content is 7 percent. This serving also consists of 1 to 4 percent of magnesium, iron, zinc, manganese, pantothenic acid and potassium. Vitamin A, Vitamin B complex including 148mg of sodium is also contained in a single serving of frozen cheese sauce.
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