Buffalo Style Chicken
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0021130113668 · Sandwiches. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Buffalo Style Chicken scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 67 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 67-component record, beginning with Unbleached Wheat Flour, Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour. That density can include amounts and label fragments, so verify the physical label before relying on ingredient order or completeness. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- None flagged · of 67 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- D
- Nutri-Score nutrition grade
Computed directly from OpenFoodFacts ingredient data cross-referenced with FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings. See our methodology for the scoring formula.
Composite profile score
One verdict from three independent sources
63/100
Grade C+
Ingredient Safety
100/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
D
Nutri-Score front-of-pack nutrition grade
Weighted 50% ingredient safety / 25% processing level / 25% nutrition grade. A dimension with no data for this product (common: source coverage is partial) is dropped and its weight redistributes across the remaining dimensions, so missing data never silently lowers the score. See the full benchmark table.
30113668 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Buffalo Style Chicken label screening desk
13 of 67 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Sodium Benzoate). Source sheet 30113668 · Open Food Facts · July 2026. The screening score and flag counts are in the verdict band above. This desk is the provenance stamp, not a second scorecard. Methodology
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
Within the four-tier shelf-label framework this site publishes, the composite for this product falls in the highest band. That band is defined by a threshold on the derived score alone: it is where labels land once components carrying caution-or-worse registry ratings contribute little or nothing to the deduction. The band is a summary of what the screened registries return for the components that were parsed, so it inherits their coverage gaps — a component absent from both registries neither raises nor lowers the figure. The threshold and the weighting behind it are set out on the methodology page.
This label falls in the fourth Nutri-Score band. The model arrives there when its penalty terms — energy density, sugars, saturated fat, sodium — carry more weight in the calculation than the fibre, protein and produce content it credits. The band covers a wide span of the points scale, so position within it is not visible from the letter alone. The grade reflects the declared nutrition panel and is unrelated to the additive ratings listed below, which come from different bodies applying different criteria.
The declared list is among the longer ones in this catalogue. A component set this wide means the screen returns many individual ratings, and the composite accumulates a large number of small contributions instead of turning on a handful of entries. At this length the per-component table below is substantially more informative than the single figure, because the figure compresses a great deal of variation into one number.
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 1,373 products we've scored in the Sandwiches category, the average safety score is 88.9/100. Buffalo Style Chicken scores 11.1 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 88.9/100), so it is a comparatively strong pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Sandwiches products
Buffalo Style Chicken lists 67 ingredients on its label
67 85th percentile a longer ingredient list than 85% of the 1,215 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 832 products (68%)
Source Open Food Facts, product label ingredient lists · July 2026
Ingredient-list length is a descriptive property of the label, not a safety rating. A longer list is not automatically worse and a shorter one is not automatically better; the count is shown so the label can be placed against a comparable population. The comparison here runs against the 1,215 Sandwiches products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
Full Ingredient List
Unbleached wheat flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, chicken breast strips (boneless, skinless chicken breast strips with rib meat, water, seasoning [maltodextrin, salt, sugar, chicken stock, vegetable stock {carrot, onion, celery}, flavors, carrot powder and garlic powder], modified food starch [corn], sodium phosphates, soy protein concentrate, sea salt), provolone cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt and enzymes), mozzarella cheese (pasteurized part-skim milk, cheese cultures, salt and enzymes), buffalo style chicken wing sauce mild (hot sauce [vinegar, aged peppers {peppers, salt, vinegar}, water, xanthan gum and benzoate of soda {to preserve freshness and flavor}], margarine [soybean and hydrogenated soybean oils, water, salt, mono - and diglycerides, soy lecithin, sodium benzoate [preservative], natural and artificial flavors, beta carotene [color], vitamin a palmitate], xanthan gum), ricotta cheese (pasteurized milk, whey, vinegar, salt), romano cheese (pasteurized sheep's milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes, powdered cellulose added to prevent caking), sugar, olive oil, salt, yeast, soybean oil, parsley, dough conditioner blend (wheat flour, malted barley flour, enzymes, ascorbic acid), parmesan cheese grated (pasteurized part-skim milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes and powdered cellulose added to prevent caking), oregano, minced garlic, black pepper.
Other products containing Enzymes And Powdered Cellulose Added To Prevent Caking
Enzymes And Powdered Cellulose Added To Prevent Caking is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 8 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
Read the longer label in layers
Read the longer label in layers
Buffalo Style Chicken has a longer ingredient list than 85% of its Sandwiches category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.
- Open Sodium Benzoate first, then work through the remaining 67 parsed entries. Inspect ingredients
- Compare this longer label with a cross-brand product of similar list depth. Compare label depth
- Use the methodology to separate a derived screening score from dietary or medical advice. Read the boundary
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0021130113668: product data from Open Food Facts (July 2026). Screening from FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine where attached. Figures are computed from those sources, not editor-typed. Methodology. Reference only, not dietary or medical advice.