Banquet Classic Salisbury Steak Meal: Labelgrade C (63/100)

The short answer

Banquet Classic Salisbury Steak Meal delivers 11g of protein and 361 calories per 1 Meal (337g) (USDA FDC 2769904). Per 100g that’s 3.3g of protein; per oz, 0.9g. The Labelgrade is C (63 / 100): Additive-heavy formulation (soy protein concentrate and maltodextrin or corn syrup) and very low saturated fat.

Why this Labelgrade

How it compares

What’s actually in the “steak”

The name says Salisbury steak, but the ingredient list tells a more honest story. The patty’s first ingredient is mechanically separated chicken, followed by water, then pork and beef — bulked out with textured vegetable protein (soy flour) and soy protein concentrate. In other words, this is a blended, soy-extended meat patty, not a beef steak, which is exactly how Banquet hits a sub-dollar-per-meal price point. It’s also why the protein comes in at just 11g despite a hefty 337g tray: the meat component is small, stretched, and surrounded by starch.

This isn’t a knock on safety — it’s a perfectly ordinary frozen-meal formulation — but it’s worth knowing if you bought it expecting a meaningful serving of beef. If protein is your goal, this tray simply isn’t built to deliver it; you’d need to eat three of them to match the protein in one lean chicken tray, and you’d be swallowing over 3,000mg of sodium to do it.

Where the calories (and the sugar) really hide

Open the tray and you’re looking at four compartments: mashed potatoes, the gravy-covered patty, sweet corn, and a cinnamon apple dessert. That layout is the key to the numbers. The 361 calories and 17g of fat are driven by the margarine-and-oil mashed potatoes and the gravy, not the small meat patty. And the 17g of sugar — startling for a “steak dinner” — comes almost entirely from the dessert (apples, sugar, and brown sugar) plus added sugar and corn-syrup solids worked into the gravy.

If you do eat this, two easy moves blunt the worst of it: skip or set aside the apple dessert to cut a big chunk of the sugar, and don’t add salt at the table — at 1,040mg of sodium it’s already supplying nearly half a day’s limit on its own. Pairing it with a plain green vegetable also adds the fiber the tray is short on (just 3g). None of this turns it into a health food, but it makes a cheap comfort meal a little less of a sugar-and-salt spike.

Scope

This page covers Banquet Classic Salisbury Steak Meal (11.88 ONZ), UPC 00031000007300, as represented in USDA Branded Foods FDC 2769904. Banquet sells multiple variants in this product line — other sizes, flavors, or fat levels may have different macros and Labelgrade scores. Manufacturers periodically reformulate; always cross-reference the actual package label, especially if you have allergies or dietary restrictions.

Ingredients (from the USDA Branded Foods entry)

MASHED POTATOES: Rehydrated Potato Flakes and Granules (Water, Potatoes, Mono- And Diglycerides, Citric Acid, Disodium Dihydrogen Pyrophosphate, Sodium Bisulfite, BHT), Water, Contains 2% or less of: Margarine (Soybean Oil, Water, Salt, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Monoglycerides, Sodium Benzoate, Soy Lecithin, Medium Chain Triglycerides, Calcium Disodium EDTA, Corn Oil, Sunflower Oil, Vitamin A Palmitate, Beta Carotene [Color], Vitamin D3 [Cholecalciferol], Natural Flavor), Milk, Soybean Oil, Sugar, Salt, Nonfat Dry Milk, Cream, Monosodium Glutamate, Xanthan Gum, Guar Gum, Natural Flavor, SAUCE: Water, Modified Corn Starch, Salt, Monosodium Glutamate, Flavorings, Caramel Color, Corn Syrup Solids, Whey, Beef Flavor (contains Autolyzed Yeast Extract, Disodium Inosinate, Disodium Guanylate, Xanthan Gum) , Hydrolyzed Soy Protein, Sugar, Propylene Glycol, Vegetable Juice Concentrates (Celery, Carrot, Onion, Leek), Extractives of Paprika. COOKED SALISBURY STEAK: Mechanically Separated Chicken, Water, Pork, Beef, Breader (Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour [Bleached Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid], Durum Flour, Leavening [Sodium Bicarbonate, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate], Yeast), Textured Vegetable Protein (Soy Flour, Caramel Color), Soy Protein Concentrate, Less Than 2% Of: Dried Onion, Salt, Flavorings, Caramel Color, Potassium Phosphates, Dextrose, Potassium Salt, Citric Acid, CINNAMON APPLE DESSERT: Water, Apples (with Ascorbic Acid and Citric Acid To Retain Color), Sugar, Brown Sugar, Modified Corn Starch, Acetylated Monoglycerides, Modified Food Starch, Salt, Cinnamon, Lemon Juice Concentrate, Natural Flavors, Propylene Glycol, Spice, Alcohol, Lemon Oil, CORN: Corn, Water, Sugar, Salt. CONTAINS: MILK, SOY, WHEAT

🔬 Compare this product side-by-side with any other →

See how this fits your day — protein calculator · macro calculator

Scope: This page applies specifically to Classic Salisbury Steak Meal (11.88 ONZ) · UPC 00031000007300. Other sizes, flavors, or formulations may differ.