Frozen Chicken Wings, Mild Buffalo Style
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0041220248216 · Hill Country Fare · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Frozen Chicken Wings, Mild Buffalo Style by Hill Country Fare scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 32 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 32-component record, beginning with Chicken Wing Sections, Water, Hot Sauce. 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.
- 95/100
- Safe safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 32 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
60/100
Grade C+
Ingredient Safety
95/100
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.
20248216 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Frozen Chicken Wings, Mild Buffalo Style label screening desk
7 of 32 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 20248216 · 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 · Read with nearest score peer: Barbeque Sauce · Nearest score peer is Barbeque Sauce at the same screening score.
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.
This label parsed into a long component list. Where many entries are screened at once, the composite tends to reflect the overall mix of registry ratings returned rather than the rating of any one entry. Longer declarations also carry more sub-listed and compound entries, where a parenthetical group is resolved into its parts, so the parsed count can exceed what a reader counts on the packaging.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 24,982 products we've scored in the Frozen foods category, the average safety score is 92.9/100. Frozen Chicken Wings, Mild Buffalo Style scores 2.1 points above that category average (95/100 vs. 92.9/100), so it is roughly typical for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Frozen foods products
Frozen Chicken Wings, Mild Buffalo Style lists 32 ingredients on its label
32 42nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 42% of the 7,008 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 11 products (0%)
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- 54 products (1%)
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- 283 products (4%)
- 40 and above
- 2,792 products (40%)
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 7,008 Frozen foods 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
How the 95/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 32 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Chicken wing sections, water, hot sauce (aged cayenne peppers, vinegar, salt), modified corn starch, maltodextrin, paprika (color), salt, sodium phosphates, soybean oil, corn syrup, butter (cream, salt), spices, corn syrup solids, distilled vinegar, safflower and/or sunflower oil, nonfat dry milk, aged cayenne red peppers, xanthan gum, natural and artificial flavors, smoke flavor, guar gum, dehydrated garlic, anhydrous milkfat, paprika extract (color), caramel color, garlic powder, citric acid.
Other products containing Chicken Wing Sections
Chicken Wing Sections is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 135 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
More from Hill Country Fare
High-score cross-brand comparables for Frozen Chicken Wings, Mild Buffalo Style
Neighbours outside Hill Country Fare with screening scores in the same high band as Frozen Chicken Wings, Mild Buffalo Style (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Hill Country Fare; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 32 on 0041220248216).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (32 on 0041220248216).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from Frozen Chicken Wings, Mild Buffalo Style's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 32-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
- Compare Frozen Chicken Wings, Mild Buffalo Style's 1 flagged ingredients with a product from the same score neighbourhood. Compare labels
- Check how caution flags contribute to the derived screening score before drawing a dietary conclusion. Read the method
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0041220248216: 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.