Ready Rice Roasted Chicken Flavored with Carrots & Herbs

How it scored 62 / 100

Nutrition snapshot

Ingredients 33 listed

• 1 Water
  Water intended for human consumption; the most common ingredient in processed foods and beverages. Bottled water is regulated as a food unde…
  Safe
• 2 Long Grain Parboiled Rice
  Long-grain rice (Oryza sativa) partially boiled in the husk before milling, which gelatinizes starches.
  Safe
• 3 Canola Oil
  Edible oil pressed from low-erucic-acid varieties of Brassica napus or B. campestris (rapeseed). Refined, bleached, deodorized, and standard…
  Low
• 4 Salt
  Sodium chloride (NaCl), a crystalline mineral compound composed of roughly 40% sodium and 60% chloride by mass.
  Low
• 5 Yeast Extract
  Concentrate of soluble compounds from autolyzed Saccharomyces yeast cells; contains naturally occurring glutamates and nucleotides.
  Low
• 6 Carrot
  Edible taproot of the Daucus carota plant.
  Safe
• 7 Modified Corn Starch
  Corn starch chemically or physically altered (acid hydrolysis, esterification, etherification, oxidation, or enzymatic treatment) to change …
  Low
• 8 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
• 9 Onion
  The edible bulb of Allium cepa L., a widely cultivated vegetable in the Allium family that also includes garlic, shallots, and leeks.
  Safe
• 10 Maltodextrin
  A short-chain glucose polymer (3–20 glucose units, DE 3–20) produced by partial enzymatic or acid hydrolysis of corn, potato, rice, or wheat…
  Moderate
• 11 Parsley
  Parsley is a culinary herb (Petroselinum crispum).
  Safe
• 12 Chicken Fat
  Rendered fat from chicken, used as a cooking and flavoring fat.
  Safe
• 13 Citric Acid
  Citric acid (E330), a weak organic acid naturally present in citrus fruit and produced commercially via Aspergillus niger fermentation.
  Low
• 14 Garlic
  Allium sativum, a bulbous plant whose cloves are rich in organosulfur compounds — most notably allicin (formed when garlic is crushed) — plu…
  Safe
• 15 Sugar
  Sucrose, a disaccharide of glucose and fructose, refined from sugarcane or sugar beets.
  Moderate
• 16 Chicken
  Meat from domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).
  Safe
• 17 Spice
  A regulatory category (21 CFR 101.22) for aromatic vegetable substances used primarily for seasoning. Excludes onion, garlic, and celery, wh…
  Moderate
• 18 Safflower Oil
  Edible oil pressed from safflower seeds (Carthamus tinctorius); high-linoleic or high-oleic variants.
  Safe
• 19 Vitamins
  Generic umbrella term for fortification with one or more essential vitamins (A, B-complex, C, D, E, K, etc.).
  Low
• 20 Minerals
  Generic umbrella term for inorganic nutrient additives (e.g., calcium carbonate, ferrous sulfate, zinc oxide, potassium iodide).
  Safe
• 21 Curcumin
  Yellow-orange pigment extracted from turmeric rhizomes (Curcuma longa); E100 covers curcumins.
  Low
• 22 Sunflower Oil
  Edible vegetable oil pressed from the seeds of Helianthus annuus, typically high in linoleic acid (omega-6) or, in high-oleic varieties, ole…
  Low
• 23 Lactic Acid
  Organic acid (E270) naturally produced by lactic acid bacteria during fermentation; also produced industrially.
  Low
• 24 Chicken Broth
  Liquid prepared by simmering chicken meat, bones, and aromatics in water.
  Safe
• 25 Calcium
  An essential mineral nutrient; commonly added to foods as calcium carbonate, calcium phosphate, calcium citrate, or calcium lactate.
  Low
• 26 Iron
  Mineral element; essential micronutrient. In food, typically appears as ferrous sulfate, ferric orthophosphate, or reduced iron.
  Low
• 27 Nicotinic Acid
  Nicotinic acid (niacin or vitamin B3, pyridine-3-carboxylic acid). E375 is the EU additive code for its use as a vitamin/nutrient added to f…
  Low
• 28 Thiamin
  Thiamin (vitamin B1) is an essential water-soluble B vitamin.
  Low
• 29 Folic Acid
  Synthetic form of folate (vitamin B9). Pteroylmonoglutamic acid, a water-soluble B vitamin essential for DNA synthesis and red blood cell fo…
  Low
• 30 Colour
  Generic ingredient term covering any of dozens of permitted colour additives — synthetic dyes (e.g. tartrazine E102, allura red E129, brilli…
  Low
• 31 Calcium Carbonate
  Calcium carbonate (CaCO3), a naturally occurring mineral (limestone, chalk) used as a calcium source, anticaking agent, and pH regulator in …
  Low
• 32 Ferric Orthophosphate
  Iron(III) phosphate (also called ferric phosphate); off-white powder used to fortify foods with iron.
  Low
• 33 thimine mononitrate —