Chicken Breast Strips, Original
by Perdue
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0072745001291 · Perdue · Meats and their products. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Chicken Breast Strips, Original by Perdue scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 34 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 34-component record, beginning with Chicken Breast, 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.
- 95/100
- Safe safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 34 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
60/100
Grade C+
Ingredient Safety
95/100
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.
45001291 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Chicken Breast Strips, Original label screening desk
16 of 34 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 45001291 · 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: Fanny Farmer, Sea Salt Caramels Milk Chocolate · Nearest score peer is Fanny Farmer, Sea Salt Caramels Milk Chocolate 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.
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
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 13,350 products we've scored in the Meats and their products category, the average safety score is 92.4/100. Chicken Breast Strips, Original scores 2.6 points above that category average (95/100 vs. 92.4/100), 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 Meats and their products products
Chicken Breast Strips, Original lists 34 ingredients on its label
34 96th percentile a longer ingredient list than 96% of the 11,159 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 40 and above
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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 11,159 Meats and their products 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 34 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
chicken breast, water, bleached wheat flour, whole wheat flour, enriched wheat flour (enriched with niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), yellow corn flour, salt, wheat flour, whole grain yellow corn meal, sodium lactate, potassium lactate, dextrose, maltodextrin, sugar, yeast, flavor, iodized salt, sodium phosphate, sodium diacetate, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate), calcium propionate, extractives of paprika, autolyzed yeast extract, potassium sorbate, caramel color, guar gum, disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate.
Other products containing Organic Whole Grain Yellow Corn Meal
Organic Whole Grain Yellow Corn Meal is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 58 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Chicken Breast Strips, Original
Neighbours outside Perdue with screening scores in the same high band as Chicken Breast Strips, Original (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Perdue; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 34 on 0072745001291).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (34 on 0072745001291).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from Chicken Breast Strips, Original's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 34-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
- Compare Chicken Breast Strips, Original'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 0072745001291: 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.