Chicken Nuggets

How it scored 70 / 100

Nutrition snapshot

Ingredients 16 listed

• 1 White Chicken Meat
  Lean breast and other light-colored skeletal muscle tissue from chicken.
  Safe
• 2 Water
  Water intended for human consumption; the most common ingredient in processed foods and beverages. Bottled water is regulated as a food unde…
  Safe
• 3 Wheat Flour
  Powder ground from wheat grain (Triticum aestivum). Contains starch, gluten-forming proteins (gliadin, glutenin), bran, and germ depending o…
  Low
• 4 Brown Sugar
  Sucrose with residual or added molasses; chemically nearly identical to white sugar plus minor molasses content.
  Moderate
• 5 Dried Garlic
  Dehydrated bulbs of Allium sativum, sold as granules, flakes, or powder. A whole-food ingredient with the water removed for shelf stability.
  Safe
• 6 Dehydrated Onion
  Dried, dehydrated bulbs of Allium cepa; available as flakes, granules, or powder.
  Safe
• 7 Yeast
  Single-celled fungus, primarily Saccharomyces cerevisiae, used in fermentation and baking. A whole-food microorganism with millennia of food…
  Safe
• 8 Paprika
  Ground spice from dried Capsicum annuum peppers.
  Safe
• 9 Starch
  A polysaccharide carbohydrate (long chains of glucose) extracted from grains or tubers, used unmodified or modified.
  Safe
• 10 Natural Flavouring
  A regulatory umbrella term (21 CFR 101.22) for flavor extracts derived from spices, fruit, vegetable, herb, bark, root, leaf, meat, seafood,…
  Low
• 11 Oat Fibre
  Insoluble dietary fiber isolated from the oat hull (outer husk) of Avena sativa.
  Low
• 12 Salt
  Sodium chloride (NaCl), a crystalline mineral compound composed of roughly 40% sodium and 60% chloride by mass.
  Low
• 13 Spice
  A regulatory category (21 CFR 101.22) for aromatic vegetable substances used primarily for seasoning. Excludes onion, garlic, and celery, wh…
  Moderate
• 14 Wheat Starch
  Starch isolated from wheat by separating it from gluten.
  Low
• 15 Wholemeal Flour
  Flour milled from the entire wheat kernel including bran, germ, and endosperm.
  Low
• 16 Yellow Corn Flour
  Finely ground flour from dried yellow corn (Zea mays) kernels.
  Safe