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EWG Overall Score Breakdown
The product score is based on weighted scores for nutrition, ingredient and processing concerns. Generally, nutrition counts most, ingredient concerns next and degree of processing least. The weighted scores are added together to determine the final score. Read more about scores here.
EWG scored on three factors: nutrition, ingredient concerns, and the degree of processing. Read the full scoring methodology.
Considers calories, saturated fat, trans fat, sugar, sodium, protein, fiber and fruit, vegetable and nut content to differentiate between healthful and less healthful foods. For more information on nutrition concerns, read our full methodology.
Contains ingredients that may contribute small amounts of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Palm Oil and Diacetyltartaric & Fatty Acid Esters of Glycerol (472e) [read more]
Contains 47% of the Institute of Medicine's daily sodium (salt) recommendations based on adequate intake [read more]
Per gram, high in protein [read more]
This product contains added sugar ingredients: Sugars and Dextrose [read more]
Contains 1 added fiber ingredient(s): Soybean Fiber [read more]
Considers food additives, pesticides, hormones, antibiotics and contaminants like mercury and BPA, which can affect human health and the environment. For more information on ingredient concerns, read methodology.
This product is not certified organic [read more]
No ingredient concerns identified for this product [read more]
Antibiotics were likely used in the production of this meat [read more]
Ingredient(s) derived from animals that may have been treated with hormones and/or growth promoters [read more]
This product has 12 ingredients with concerns:
Estimates how much the food has been processed. Considers many factors, chief among them, modification of individual ingredients from whole foods and number of artificial ingredients. For more information on processing concerns, read our full methodology.
Product has been classified as having high processing concerns
Products with moderate and high processing concerns generally have more artificial ingredients, more ingredients that have been significantly modified from whole foods, and more ingredients overall.
This product is not certified organic [read more]
No ingredient concerns identified for this product [read more]
Contains food additives of moderate concern
Antibiotics were likely used in the production of this meat [read more]
Ingredient(s) derived from animals that may have been treated with hormones and/or growth promoters [read more]
Contains ingredients that may contribute small amounts of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Palm Oil and Diacetyltartaric & Fatty Acid Esters of Glycerol (472e) [read more]
Contains the non-specific ingredient "flavor" [read more]
Contains 47% of the Institute of Medicine's daily sodium (salt) recommendations based on adequate intake [read more]
Per gram, high in protein [read more]
This product contains added sugar ingredients: Sugars and Dextrose [read more]
Product has been classified as having high processing concerns
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BREADED CHICKEN PATTY: BONELESS, SKINLESS CHICKEN BREASTS WITH RIB MEAT, WATER, WHEAT FLOUR, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (ENRICHED WITH NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), CONTAINS 2% OR LESS: CARAMEL COLOR, CHICKEN BROTH, DEXTROSE, EXTRACTIVES OF BLACK PEPPER, EXTRACTIVES OF PAPRIKA, GARLIC POWDER, LEAVENING (SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE), MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, NATURAL FLAVOR, SALT, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, SPICES (INCLUDING CELERY SEED), SUGAR, TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE (ADDED TO PREVENT CAKING), WHEAT GLUTEN, YEAST, YEAST EXTRACT. BREADING SET IN VEGETABLE OIL, BUTTERMILK BISCUIT: WATER, ENRICHED BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR (CONTAINS BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN AND FOLIC ACID), BLEACHED, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (CONTAINS WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN AND FOLIC ACID), PALM OIL, DRIED BUTTERMILK, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS: SOY FIBER, SUGAR, LEAVENING (SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE), SODIUM BICARBONATE, DEXTROSE, SALT, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL BUTTER FLAVOR [NATURAL BUTTER FLAVOR {MALTODEXTRIN, ENZYME MODIFIED BUTTER [BUTTER (CREAM, SALT), ENZYMES], ANNATTO EXTRACT (COLOR), TURMERIC EXTRACT (COLOR)}, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, LACTIC ACID], POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE), DATEM, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL SAUTEED BUTTER TYPE FLAVOR [MALTODEXTRIN, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, ANNATTO EXTRACT (COLOR), TURMERIC EXTRACT (COLOR)], XANTHAN GUM
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Environmental Impact: Contains chicken, which has a lower carbon footprint compared to other meats. [read more]
This product contains the following ingredient(s) that may be genetically engineered or derived from GE crops: Sugars, Dextrose, Vegetable Oil, Soybean Fiber, Maltodextrin, Modified Food Starch, Xanthan Gum, and Lactic Acid [read more]
Contains ingredients derived from milk, wheat or soybean - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
4.0 servings per container
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