Safe

Chicken flavored rice mix, chicken

by Essential Everyday

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0041303016428 · Essential Everyday · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0041303016428 · Serving size 0.333 CUP DRY RICE/PASTA MIX & 1 TBSP SEASONING MIX | ABOUT (70 g)

The verdict

Chicken flavored rice mix, chicken by Essential Everyday scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 31 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 31-component record, beginning with Enriched Long Grain Rice, Rice, Iron. 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 31 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.

03016428 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Chicken flavored rice mix, chicken label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 100/100 FLAG-CLEAN 0 flagged LEN-DENSE 31 ing. REG-PART 32% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-MID Len top 46% LEAD-RARE Ferric Phosphate PHOTO-FINISH Pasta Side Dish · ±0 BOOK-OFF …016428 · July 2026

10 of 31 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Ferric Phosphate). Source sheet 03016428 · 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.

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

1. Chicken flavored rice mix, chicken: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Chicken flavored rice mix…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 rice 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 rice 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 15,626 products we've scored in the Meals category, the average safety score is 93.6/100. Chicken flavored rice mix, chicken scores 6.4 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 93.6/100), 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 Meals products

Chicken flavored rice mix, chicken lists 31 ingredients on its label

31 54th percentile a longer ingredient list than 54% of the 11,283 products we track

0–2: 12 products (0%). Below this entry. 2–4: 83 products (1%). Below this entry. 4–6: 127 products (1%). Below this entry. 6–8: 209 products (2%). Below this entry. 8–10: 312 products (3%). Below this entry. 10–12: 315 products (3%). Below this entry. 12–14: 412 products (4%). Below this entry. 14–16: 477 products (4%). Below this entry. 16–18: 542 products (5%). Below this entry. 18–20: 552 products (5%). Below this entry. 20–22: 545 products (5%). Below this entry. 22–24: 550 products (5%). Below this entry. 24–26: 552 products (5%). Below this entry. 26–28: 552 products (5%). Below this entry. 28–30: 574 products (5%). Below this entry. 30–32: 517 products (5%). This entry sits in this band. 32–34: 466 products (4%). Above this entry. 34–36: 451 products (4%). Above this entry. 36–38: 443 products (4%). Above this entry. 38–40: 388 products (3%). Above this entry. 40–42: 3,204 products (28%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Meals 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

11,283 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 31 (54th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
12 products (0%)
2–4
83 products (1%)
4–6
127 products (1%)
6–8
209 products (2%)
8–10
312 products (3%)
10–12
315 products (3%)
12–14
412 products (4%)
14–16
477 products (4%)
16–18
542 products (5%)
18–20
552 products (5%)
20–22
545 products (5%)
22–24
550 products (5%)
24–26
552 products (5%)
26–28
552 products (5%)
28–30
574 products (5%)
30–32
517 products (5%)
32–34
466 products (4%)
34–36
451 products (4%)
36–38
443 products (4%)
38–40
388 products (3%)
40 and above
3,204 products (28%)

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 11,283 Meals products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.

Full Ingredient List

Enriched long grain rice (rice, iron [ferric phosphate], niacin [niacinamide], thiamin [thiamin mononitrate] and folic acid), enriched vermicelli (durum wheat semolina, durum wheat flour, niacin [niacinamide], iron [ferrous sulfate], thiamin [thiamin mononitrate], riboflavin, folic acid), chicken seasoning (salt, sugar, yeast extract, chicken broth, hydrolyzed soy protein, natural flavors, onion powder, chicken fat, maltodextrin, disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate, dehydrated parsley, garlic powder, turmeric, celery seed, no more than 2% silicon dioxide added to prevent caking).

Categories

Meals Rice dishes

High-score cross-brand comparables for Chicken flavored rice mix, chicken

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

Trace this label’s coverage

Trace this label’s coverage

10 of 31 parsed ingredients on Chicken flavored rice mix, chicken match at least one source registry. Use the ingredient records to see which entries carry source context and which remain unmatched.

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Barcode 0041303016428: 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.