Safe

Chicken Flavored Stuffing Mix, Chicken

by Essential Everyday

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0041303016091 · Essential Everyday · Stuffing. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0041303016091 · Serving size 0.167 PACKAGE (28 g)

The verdict

Chicken Flavored Stuffing Mix, Chicken by Essential Everyday scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 42 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 42-component record, beginning with Bread Crumbs, Enriched Flour, Wheat 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 42 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
E
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

58/100

Grade C

Ingredient Safety

100/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

E

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.

03016091 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Chicken Flavored Stuffing Mix, Chicken label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 100/100 FLAG-CLEAN 0 flagged LEN-DENSE 42 ing. REG-PART 38% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-SHORT Len top 10% LEAD-RARE Caramel PHOTO-FINISH Pasta Side Dish · ±0 BOOK-OFF …016091 · July 2026

16 of 42 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel). Source sheet 03016091 · 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: Pasta Side Dish · Nearest score peer is Pasta Side Dish 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.

Nutri-Score assigned its lowest band to this label. The algorithm reserves that grade for nutrition panels where the values it penalises sit well above the components it credits. The two systems on this page measure genuinely different things: a product can hold this grade while carrying no additive flagged by the registries screened below, and a product graded well can carry several. Neither reading substitutes for the other, and the per-component table is where the additive picture is set out.

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.

Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood

1. Chicken Flavored Stuffing Mix, Chicken: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Chicken Flavored Stuffing…100/1002. Pasta Side Dish: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Pasta Side Dish100/1003. Ice cream color cups: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Ice cream color cups100/1004. Garlic breadsticks, garlic: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Garlic breadsticks, garlic100/1005. Chunk light tuna in water: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Chunk light tuna in water100/100
High-band neighbours for Chicken Flavored Stuffing Mix, Chicken (100/100) outside Essential Everyday.
Chart values as text

Unit: PlainFoodSafe screening score out of 100. Data current as of July 2026.

Chicken Flavored Stuffing Mix, Chicken
100/100
Pasta Side Dish
100/100
Ice cream color cups
100/100
Garlic breadsticks, garlic
100/100
Chunk light tuna in water
100/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 239 products we've scored in the Stuffing category, the average safety score is 97.6/100. Chicken Flavored Stuffing Mix, Chicken scores 2.4 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 97.6/100), 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 Stuffing products

Chicken Flavored Stuffing Mix, Chicken lists 42 ingredients on its label

42 90th percentile a longer ingredient list than 90% of the 227 products we track

6–8: 2 products (1%). Below this entry. 8–10: 3 products (1%). Below this entry. 10–12: 3 products (1%). Below this entry. 12–14: 7 products (3%). Below this entry. 14–16: 2 products (1%). Below this entry. 16–18: 8 products (4%). Below this entry. 18–20: 12 products (5%). Below this entry. 20–22: 14 products (6%). Below this entry. 22–24: 13 products (6%). Below this entry. 24–26: 14 products (6%). Below this entry. 26–28: 7 products (3%). Below this entry. 28–30: 8 products (4%). Below this entry. 30–32: 21 products (9%). Below this entry. 32–34: 18 products (8%). Below this entry. 34–36: 18 products (8%). Below this entry. 36–38: 11 products (5%). Below this entry. 38–40: 26 products (11%). Below this entry. 40–42: 40 products (18%). This entry sits in this band. This product 6 42 every published Stuffing product, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more products. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Distribution as text

227 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 42 (90th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

6–8
2 products (1%)
8–10
3 products (1%)
10–12
3 products (1%)
12–14
7 products (3%)
14–16
2 products (1%)
16–18
8 products (4%)
18–20
12 products (5%)
20–22
14 products (6%)
22–24
13 products (6%)
24–26
14 products (6%)
26–28
7 products (3%)
28–30
8 products (4%)
30–32
21 products (9%)
32–34
18 products (8%)
34–36
18 products (8%)
36–38
11 products (5%)
38–40
26 products (11%)
40 and above
40 products (18%)

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 227 Stuffing 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

1
Bread Crumbs
2
Enriched Flour
3
Wheat Flour
4
Niacin
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
5
Reduced Iron
6
Thiamine Mononitrate
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
7
Riboflavin
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
8
Folic Acid
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
Approved
9
Whole Wheat Flour
10
Sugar
Sweetener
Cut Back
11
Vegetable Shortening
12
Palm Oil
13
Palm Kernel Oil
14
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
15
Wheat Gluten
FIRMING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
GRAS
16
Yeast
17
Grain Vinegar
18
Natural Flavor
19
Soy Lecithin
20
Maltodextrin
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, HUMECTANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT, TEXTURIZER
Safe GRAS
21
Onion
22
Hydrolyzed Corn
23
Soy And Wheat Protein
24
Celery
25
Spice
26
Autolyzed yeast extract
Flavoring
Certain People Should Avoid
27
Potassium Chloride
ENZYME, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, MALTING OR FERMENTING AID, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
Certain People Should Avoid GRAS
28
Garlic
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
GRAS
29
Caramel
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE
GRAS
30
Color
31
Corn Starch
32
Turmeric
33
Soy Flour
34
Chicken Fat
35
Citric Acid
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, ENZYME, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LEAVENING AGENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT
Safe GRAS
36
Chicken Broth
37
Disodium Inosinate
FLAVOR ENHANCER, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
Approved
38
Disodium Guanylate
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
Approved
39
Gelatin
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, HUMECTANT, PROCESSING AID, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-FINISHING AGENT, TEXTURIZER
Safe GRAS
40
Corn Starch
41
Sunflower Oil
42
Chicken

Full Ingredient List

Bread crumbs (enriched flour [wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], whole wheat flour, sugar, vegetable shortening [palm oil and/or palm kernel oil], salt, wheat gluten, yeast, grain vinegar, natural flavor, soy lecithin), maltodextrin, dehydrated onion, hydrolyzed corn, soy and wheat protein, contains 2% or less of each of the following: dehydrated celery, spice, salt, autolyzed yeast extract, sugar, potassium chloride, dehydrated garlic, caramel (color), corn starch, turmeric (color), soy flour, chicken fat, citric acid, chicken broth, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, gelatin, modified corn starch, sunflower oil, dehydrated chicken, natural flavor.

Categories

Stuffing

High-score cross-brand comparables for Chicken Flavored Stuffing Mix, Chicken

Neighbours outside Essential Everyday with screening scores in the same high band as Chicken Flavored Stuffing Mix, Chicken (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Essential Everyday; these peers cross brands.

Read the longer label in layers

Read the longer label in layers

Chicken Flavored Stuffing Mix, Chicken has a longer ingredient list than 90% of its Stuffing category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.

This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.

Barcode 0041303016091: 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.