Boneless chicken bites, sweet & smoky
by TGI Friday's
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0046704068656 · TGI Friday's · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Boneless chicken bites, sweet & smoky by TGI Friday's scores 90/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 74 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 74-component record, beginning with Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast With Rib Meat, Water, Bleached 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.
- 90/100
- Safe safety score
- 2
- Few flagged · of 74 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
58/100
Grade C
Ingredient Safety
90/100
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.
04068656 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Boneless chicken bites, sweet & smoky label screening desk
13 of 74 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Polysorbate 80). Source sheet 04068656 · 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: Frisco Sauce · Nearest score peer is Frisco 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.
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
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. Boneless chicken bites, sweet & smoky scores 2.9 points below that category average (90/100 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
Boneless chicken bites, sweet & smoky lists 74 ingredients on its label
74 96th percentile a longer ingredient list than 96% 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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- 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 90/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 74 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Boneless skinless chicken breast with rib meat, water, bleached wheat flour, wheat flour, brown sugar, sugar, soybean oil, contains less than 2% of: soy sauce (water, wheat, soybeans, salt), distilled vinegar, bourbon seasoning (sugar, brown sugar, salt, modified food starch, natural flavor [maltodextrin, modified food starch, flavor, citric acid, natural tocopherol], onion, garlic, bourbon, partially hydrogenated soybean oil), molasses, modified food starch, salt, spices, yellow corn flour, sesame seeds, sodium phosphates, dextrose, chicken broth powder (chicken broth, salt, flavoring), egg white solids, wheat gluten, onion powder, annatto extract (color), dried yeast, paprika extract (color), bourbon type flavor (maltodextrin, seasoning [soy sauce (wheat, soybeans), cream flavor (anhydrous milk fat, butter oil, cream and butter fat)], autolyzed yeast extract, tapioca maltodextrin, refiner's syrup, cultured whey, onion powder, tricalcium phosphate, modified food starch, enzyme modified butter and buttermilk powder (butter [cream, salt], dry buttermilk, mono - and diglycerides, enzymes), corn syrup solids, honey powder, salt, butter (cream, salt), wheat bran, powdered chicken meat, wheat, nonfat milk solids, molasses), tamarind, extractives of paprika, garlic powder, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate), polysorbate 80, spice extractives, whey solids, caramel color, citric acid, smoke flavor, sodium benzoate (preservative).
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Boneless chicken bites, sweet & smoky
Neighbours outside TGI Friday's with screening scores in the same high band as Boneless chicken bites, sweet & smoky (90/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within TGI Friday's; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (2 flagged of 74 on 0046704068656).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (74 on 0046704068656).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Polysorbate 80 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Boneless chicken bites, sweet & smoky's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 74-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Polysorbate 80. Open Polysorbate 80
- Compare Boneless chicken bites, sweet & smoky'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 0046704068656: 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.