Buffalo Style Chicken Strips
by Weis Quality
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0041497047093 · Weis Quality. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Buffalo Style Chicken Strips by Weis Quality scores 90/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 37 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 2 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 37-component record, beginning with Boneless, Skinless Chicken Breast Strips With Rib Meat, Chicken Broth. 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.
- 90/100
- Safe safety score
- 2
- Few flagged · of 37 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- A
- 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
73/100
Grade B
Ingredient Safety
90/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
A
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.
97047093 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Buffalo Style Chicken Strips label screening desk
11 of 37 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Polysorbate 80). Source sheet 97047093 · 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: Light Ice Cream · Nearest score peer is Light Ice Cream 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 placed this label in its highest band. The model reaches that grade when the credit side of its ledger — fibre, protein and the fruit, vegetable and legume fraction — outweighs the energy, sugar, saturated-fat and sodium it counts against a product. The scale is computed per hundred grams from the declared nutrition panel, which is why two products with similar ingredients can grade differently on portion-heavy categories. It is a nutritional summary only, calculated independently of the additive registries screened further down this page, and it neither incorporates nor contradicts them.
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
Ingredient-list length vs every product we publish
Buffalo Style Chicken Strips lists 37 ingredients on its label
37 92nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 92% of the 359,392 products we track
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
- 0–2
- 6,050 products (2%)
- 2–4
- 24,522 products (7%)
- 4–6
- 31,054 products (9%)
- 6–8
- 30,981 products (9%)
- 8–10
- 31,618 products (9%)
- 10–12
- 29,943 products (8%)
- 12–14
- 28,403 products (8%)
- 14–16
- 27,417 products (8%)
- 16–18
- 24,508 products (7%)
- 18–20
- 19,062 products (5%)
- 20–22
- 14,679 products (4%)
- 22–24
- 12,238 products (3%)
- 24–26
- 10,830 products (3%)
- 26–28
- 9,344 products (3%)
- 28–30
- 7,955 products (2%)
- 30–32
- 6,753 products (2%)
- 32–34
- 5,918 products (2%)
- 34–36
- 5,282 products (1%)
- 36–38
- 4,531 products (1%)
- 38–40
- 4,063 products (1%)
- 40 and above
- 24,241 products (7%)
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. No category with enough published products was available for this record, so the comparison runs against the whole published catalogue.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
How the 90/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 37 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
BONELESS, SKINLESS CHICKEN BREAST STRIPS WITH RIB MEAT, CHICKEN BROTH, BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, VINEGAR, AGED CAYENNE PEPPERS, WHEAT FLOUR, SALT, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2 PERCENT OF: MODIFIED CORN STARCH, SPICES, MALTODEXTRIN, YELLOW CORN FLOUR, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, MODIFIED TAPIOCA STARCH, VINEGAR POWDER (MALTODEXTRIN, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, AND VINEGAR), SODIU DIACETATE, DEXTROSE, SUGAR, DEHYDRATED ONION, DEHYDRATED GARLIC, XANTHAN GUM, YEAST, GUAR GUM, SPICE EXTRACTIVES, CARAMEL COLOR, OLEORESIN PAPRIKA, CAROB BEAN GUM, NATURAL FLAVOR, LEAVENING (SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE), ONION POWDER, POLYSORBATE 80, EXTRACTIVES OF PAPRIKA AND GRANULATED GARLIC, BREADING SET IN VEGETABLE OIL
Other products containing Skinless Chicken Breast Strips With Rib Meat
Skinless Chicken Breast Strips With Rib Meat is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 14 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
More from Weis Quality
High-score cross-brand comparables for Buffalo Style Chicken Strips
Neighbours outside Weis Quality with screening scores in the same high band as Buffalo Style Chicken Strips (90/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Weis Quality; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (2 flagged of 37 on 0041497047093).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (37 on 0041497047093).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Polysorbate 80 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Buffalo Style Chicken Strips's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 37-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Polysorbate 80. Open Polysorbate 80
- Compare Buffalo Style Chicken Strips's 2 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 0041497047093: 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.