Safe

Chicken Lo Mein

by Kahiki

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0054347240018 · Kahiki · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0054347240018 · Serving size 0.5 PACKAGE (312 g)

The verdict

Chicken Lo Mein by Kahiki scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 54 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 54-component record, beginning with Yakisoba Noodles, Unenriched Wheat Flour, Water. 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 54 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
B
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

70/100

Grade B

Ingredient Safety

95/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

B

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.

47240018 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Chicken Lo Mein label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 95/100 FLAG-ONE 1 flagged LEN-DENSE 54 ing. REG-SPARSE 20% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-B Nutri-B RANK-SHORT Len top 17% LEAD-FLAG Carrageenan PHOTO-FINISH Orange chicken · ±0 BOOK-OFF …240018 · July 2026

11 of 54 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Carrageenan). Source sheet 47240018 · 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: Orange chicken · Nearest score peer is Orange chicken 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.

The Nutri-Score algorithm returned its second band for this label. That grade typically describes a nutrition panel whose favourable components register clearly in the model without fully offsetting its energy or sodium terms. Because the calculation is a single points balance rather than a set of independent thresholds, a strong fibre or protein figure can lift a panel into this band even where one penalised nutrient sits high. The grade summarises the declared panel alone and carries no information about the additive ratings screened below.

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 Lo Mein: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Chicken Lo Mein95/1002. Orange chicken: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Orange chicken95/1003. Frosted Sugar Cookies: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Frosted Sugar Cookies95/1004. Cream cheese croissant muffins: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Cream cheese croissant mu…95/1005. Pecan Praline Coffee Creamer: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Pecan Praline Coffee Crea…95/100
High-band neighbours for Chicken Lo Mein (95/100) outside Kahiki.
Chart values as text

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

Chicken Lo Mein
95/100
Orange chicken
95/100
Frosted Sugar Cookies
95/100
Cream cheese croissant muffins
95/100
Pecan Praline Coffee Creamer
95/100

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. Chicken Lo Mein 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

Chicken Lo Mein lists 54 ingredients on its label

54 83rd percentile a longer ingredient list than 83% of the 7,008 products we track

0–2: 11 products (0%). Below this entry. 2–4: 54 products (1%). Below this entry. 4–6: 54 products (1%). Below this entry. 6–8: 66 products (1%). Below this entry. 8–10: 102 products (1%). Below this entry. 10–12: 112 products (2%). Below this entry. 12–14: 184 products (3%). Below this entry. 14–16: 205 products (3%). Below this entry. 16–18: 245 products (3%). Below this entry. 18–20: 284 products (4%). Below this entry. 20–22: 264 products (4%). Below this entry. 22–24: 298 products (4%). Below this entry. 24–26: 247 products (4%). Below this entry. 26–28: 271 products (4%). Below this entry. 28–30: 284 products (4%). Below this entry. 30–32: 294 products (4%). Below this entry. 32–34: 325 products (5%). Below this entry. 34–36: 319 products (5%). Below this entry. 36–38: 314 products (4%). Below this entry. 38–40: 283 products (4%). Below this entry. 40–42: 2,792 products (40%). This entry sits in this band. This product 0 42 every published Frozen foods 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

7,008 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 54 (83rd percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
11 products (0%)
2–4
54 products (1%)
4–6
54 products (1%)
6–8
66 products (1%)
8–10
102 products (1%)
10–12
112 products (2%)
12–14
184 products (3%)
14–16
205 products (3%)
16–18
245 products (3%)
18–20
284 products (4%)
20–22
264 products (4%)
22–24
298 products (4%)
24–26
247 products (4%)
26–28
271 products (4%)
28–30
284 products (4%)
30–32
294 products (4%)
32–34
325 products (5%)
34–36
319 products (5%)
36–38
314 products (4%)
38–40
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 54 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

1
Yakisoba Noodles
2
Unenriched Wheat Flour
3
Water
4
Soybean Oil
5
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
6
Potassium Carbonate
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LEAVENING AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID
GRAS
7
Sodium Carbonate
ANTIOXIDANT, CURING OR PICKLING AGENT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID
GRAS
8
Color
9
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
10
Annatto Extract
11
Turmeric
12
Rice Concentrate
13
Lo Mein Sauce
14
Dehydrated Soy Sauce
15
Wheat
16
Soybeans
17
Alcohol
18
Lactic Acid
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, CURING OR PICKLING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE
Safe GRAS
19
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
20
Chicken Stock
21
Sugar
Sweetener
Cut Back
22
Garlic
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
GRAS
23
Salted Sake
24
Rice
25
Koji
26
Corn Starch
27
Sesame Oil
28
Vegetable Oil
29
Organic Shiitake Mushroom
30
Red Miso
31
Fermented Soybeans
32
Yeast Extract
33
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
34
Onion Powder
35
Natural Flavor Wok Oil
36
Safflower Oil
37
Sesame Seed Oil
38
Rice Bran Oil
39
Natural Flavors
40
Spices
41
Broccoli
42
Cabbage
43
Carrots
44
Fully Cooked Chicken Breast Strips
45
Chicken Breast With Rib Meat
46
Potato Starch
FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
GRAS
47
Carrageenan
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, HUMECTANT, PROCESSING AID, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
Caution GRAS
48
Black Pepper
49
Paprika
50
Garlic Powder
51
Natural Flavor
52
Celery
53
Red Bell Pepper
54
Edamame

Full Ingredient List

Yakisoba noodles (unenriched wheat flour, water, soybean oil, salt, potassium carbonate, sodium carbonate, color [organic maltodextrin, annatto extract {color}, turmeric {color}, organic rice concentrate]), lo mein sauce (water, soy sauce [water, wheat, soybeans, salt, alcohol, lactic acid, maltodextrin], chicken stock, sugar, garlic, salted sake [water, rice, koji {aspergillus oryzae}, salt], corn starch, sesame oil, contains 2% or less of: salt, vegetable oil, dried shiitake mushroom, red miso [fermented soybeans, salt], yeast extract, potassium chloride, onion powder, natural flavor wok oil [safflower oil, sesame seed oil, rice bran oil, natural flavors], spices), broccoli, cabbage, carrots, fully cooked chicken breast strips (chicken breast with rib meat, water, potato starch, contains less than 2% of: salt, carrageenan, yeast extract, black pepper, paprika, garlic powder, natural flavor), celery, red bell pepper, edamame.

Categories

Frozen foods

High-score cross-brand comparables for Chicken Lo Mein

Neighbours outside Kahiki with screening scores in the same high band as Chicken Lo Mein (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Kahiki; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Carrageenan is the first flagged ingredient selected from Chicken Lo Mein's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 54-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Carrageenan. Open Carrageenan
  • Compare Chicken Lo Mein'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 0054347240018: 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.