Chicken Melts

How it scored 50 / 100

Nutrition snapshot

Ingredients 29 listed

• 1 fully cooked chicken breast patty with rib meat coated with seasoning —
• 2 Pita
  Flat, round leavened wheat bread that puffs into a pocket during baking.
  Safe
• 3 American Cheese
  Processed cheese product made by blending natural cheeses with emulsifiers, milk solids, and other ingredients.
  Low
• 4 chicken breast patty with rib meat —
• 5 Water
  Water intended for human consumption; the most common ingredient in processed foods and beverages. Bottled water is regulated as a food unde…
  Safe
• 6 Sugar
  Sucrose, a disaccharide of glucose and fructose, refined from sugarcane or sugar beets.
  Moderate
• 7 Romano Cheese
  Hard, salty Italian-style cheese typically made from cow, sheep, or goat milk; aged grated cheese.
  Low
• 8 Salt
  Sodium chloride (NaCl), a crystalline mineral compound composed of roughly 40% sodium and 60% chloride by mass.
  Low
• 9 Coating
  Generic umbrella term for an applied surface layer on food (e.g., glaze, wax, sugar, chocolate, batter, breading) without specifying composi…
  Low
• 10 Wheat Flour
  Powder ground from wheat grain (Triticum aestivum). Contains starch, gluten-forming proteins (gliadin, glutenin), bran, and germ depending o…
  Low
• 11 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
• 12 Dehydrated Onion
  Dried, dehydrated bulbs of Allium cepa; available as flakes, granules, or powder.
  Safe
• 13 Paprika
  Ground spice from dried Capsicum annuum peppers.
  Safe
• 14 Corn Starch
  Starch isolated from the endosperm of corn kernels. Composed of amylose and amylopectin (glucose polymers).
  Low
• 15 Spice
  A regulatory category (21 CFR 101.22) for aromatic vegetable substances used primarily for seasoning. Excludes onion, garlic, and celery, wh…
  Moderate
• 16 Paprika Extract
  Paprika extract (E160c, capsanthin/capsorubin) is a natural orange-red colorant from red peppers.
  Low
• 17 High Oleic Sunflower Oil
  Sunflower oil from cultivars bred to be high in monounsaturated oleic acid (>80%).
  Safe
• 18 Yeast Extract
  Concentrate of soluble compounds from autolyzed Saccharomyces yeast cells; contains naturally occurring glutamates and nucleotides.
  Low
• 19 Barley Malt Flour
  Flour milled from barley (Hordeum vulgare) that has been germinated (malted) and dried.
  Low
• 20 Soured Milk
  Milk that has been intentionally fermented or acidified with bacterial cultures (or vinegar/lemon juice for home use).
  Low
• 21 Cream
  The fat-rich liquid separated from milk. FDA standards of identity (21 CFR 131.150 / 131.155 / 131.157) classify by milkfat content: heavy c…
  Safe
• 22 Sorbic Acid
  Sorbic acid, an unsaturated fatty acid used as a preservative against mold, yeast, and certain bacteria.
  Low
• 23 Vegetable Pigment
  Generic umbrella term for color additives derived from vegetables (e.g., beet juice, carrot, paprika, turmeric).
  Safe
• 24 Enzyme
  Industrial food enzyme — protein catalysts derived from plants, animals, or microorganisms (often via fermentation), added to food to perfor…
  Low
• 25 Cow'S Milk
  Liquid secreted by the mammary glands of cows, used directly or as a base for dairy products.
  Low
• 26 Lactic Ferments
  Live lactic-acid-producing bacterial cultures (typically Lactobacillus, Lactococcus, Streptococcus thermophilus, Leuconostoc) added to milk …
  Low
• 27 Corn Flour
  Finely ground flour from corn (maize) kernels; finer than cornmeal.
  Safe
• 28 Colour
  Generic ingredient term covering any of dozens of permitted colour additives — synthetic dyes (e.g. tartrazine E102, allura red E129, brilli…
  Low
• 29 Annatto
  Natural carotenoid pigments (bixin, norbixin) extracted from seeds of the Bixa orellana tree.
  Low