Safe

Chicken Creations Premium White Chicken in Sauce Zesty Lemon Pepper

by Starkist

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0080000517647 · Starkist · Canned foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0080000517647 · Serving size 1 pouch (74 g)

The verdict

Chicken Creations Premium White Chicken in Sauce Zesty Lemon Pepper by Starkist scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 20 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The 20-component label is layered, beginning with Chicken, White Chicken Meat, Water. Start with any flagged rows, then check the nutrition grade and serving size instead of treating one roll-up score as the whole decision. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.

95/100
Safe safety score
1
One flagged · of 20 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
C
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

65/100

Grade B-

Ingredient Safety

95/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

C

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.

00517647 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Chicken Creations Premium White Chicken in Sauce Zesty Lemon Pepper label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 95/100 FLAG-ONE 1 flagged LEN-LAYERED 20 ing. REG-PART 30% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-C Nutri-C RANK-MID Len top 40% LEAD-FLAG Polysorbate 80 PHOTO-FINISH A dozen macarons · ±0 BOOK-OFF …517647 · July 2026

6 of 20 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Polysorbate 80). Source sheet 00517647 · 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: A dozen macarons varies · Nearest score peer is A dozen macarons varies 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 settled on its middle grade here, the band the algorithm produces when the penalty and credit sides of its nutrient ledger come out close to balanced. A mid-scale grade is a statement about the panel as a whole rather than about any single nutrient, and products arrive at it by very different routes: a moderate profile across every term, or high marks on some offset by heavy penalties on others. The grade is computed separately from the ingredient screen below and the two are not comparable measures.

A mid-length component list was parsed from this label. There are enough separate entries for the screen to match several independently, while each matched entry still carries visible weight in the resulting index. Lists of this size are the most common shape in the catalogue, which makes the composite here easier to place against comparable products than at either extreme.

Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood

1. Chicken Creations Premium White Chicken in Sauce Zesty Lemon Pepper: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Chicken Creations Premium…95/1002. A dozen macarons varies: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. A dozen macarons varies95/1003. Steak & Stout Pies: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Steak & Stout Pies95/1004. DUO Vanilla + Cinnamon: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. DUO Vanilla + Cinnamon95/1005. Original syrup fluid ounce plastic jug: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Original syrup fluid ounc…95/100
High-band neighbours for Chicken Creations Premium White Chicken in Sauce Zesty Lemon Pepper (95/100) outside Starkist.
Chart values as text

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

Chicken Creations Premium White Chicken in Sauce Zesty Lemon Pepper
95/100
A dozen macarons varies
95/100
Steak & Stout Pies
95/100
DUO Vanilla + Cinnamon
95/100
Original syrup fluid ounce plastic jug
95/100

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 Creations Premium White Chicken in Sauce Zesty Lemon Pepper 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 Canned foods products

Chicken Creations Premium White Chicken in Sauce Zesty Lemon Pepper lists 20 ingredients on its label

20 60th percentile a longer ingredient list than 60% of the 2,784 products we track

0–2: 2 products (0%). Below this entry. 2–4: 58 products (2%). Below this entry. 4–6: 123 products (4%). Below this entry. 6–8: 148 products (5%). Below this entry. 8–10: 226 products (8%). Below this entry. 10–12: 301 products (11%). Below this entry. 12–14: 233 products (8%). Below this entry. 14–16: 246 products (9%). Below this entry. 16–18: 182 products (7%). Below this entry. 18–20: 165 products (6%). Below this entry. 20–22: 133 products (5%). This entry sits in this band. 22–24: 133 products (5%). Above this entry. 24–26: 123 products (4%). Above this entry. 26–28: 116 products (4%). Above this entry. 28–30: 124 products (4%). Above this entry. 30–32: 78 products (3%). Above this entry. 32–34: 95 products (3%). Above this entry. 34–36: 65 products (2%). Above this entry. 36–38: 49 products (2%). Above this entry. 38–40: 61 products (2%). Above this entry. 40–42: 123 products (4%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Canned 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

2,784 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 20 (60th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
2 products (0%)
2–4
58 products (2%)
4–6
123 products (4%)
6–8
148 products (5%)
8–10
226 products (8%)
10–12
301 products (11%)
12–14
233 products (8%)
14–16
246 products (9%)
16–18
182 products (7%)
18–20
165 products (6%)
20–22
133 products (5%)
22–24
133 products (5%)
24–26
123 products (4%)
26–28
116 products (4%)
28–30
124 products (4%)
30–32
78 products (3%)
32–34
95 products (3%)
34–36
65 products (2%)
36–38
49 products (2%)
38–40
61 products (2%)
40 and above
123 products (4%)

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 2,784 Canned foods 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

Chicken (white chicken meat, water, modified food starch [corn], salt, sodium phosphate), water, contains 2% or less of the following: lemon puree, lemon juice, modified food starch [corn], sugar, salt, citric acid, black pepper, guar gum, medium chain triglycerides, mono and diglycerides, natural flavor, xanthan gum, datem, polysorbate 80, natural extractives of turmeric.

Categories

Canned foods Meats and their products Meats Canned meats

High-score cross-brand comparables for Chicken Creations Premium White Chicken in Sauce Zesty Lemon Pepper

Neighbours outside Starkist with screening scores in the same high band as Chicken Creations Premium White Chicken in Sauce Zesty Lemon Pepper (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Starkist; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Polysorbate 80 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Chicken Creations Premium White Chicken in Sauce Zesty Lemon Pepper's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 20-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Polysorbate 80. Open Polysorbate 80
  • Compare Chicken Creations Premium White Chicken in Sauce Zesty Lemon Pepper'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 0080000517647: 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.