Safe

Lightly Breaded Chicken Breast Strips

by Higher Harvest by H-E-B

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0197870160108 · Higher Harvest by H-E-B · Meats and their products. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0197870160108 · Serving size 90g

The verdict

Lightly Breaded Chicken Breast Strips by Higher Harvest by H-E-B scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 26 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 26-component label is layered, beginning with Chicken Breast With Rib Meat, Water, Wheat Flour. 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.

100/100
Safe safety score
0
None flagged · of 26 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

73/100

Grade B

Ingredient Safety

100/100

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.

70160108 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Lightly Breaded Chicken Breast Strips label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 100/100 FLAG-CLEAN 0 flagged LEN-LAYERED 26 ing. REG-SPARSE 23% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-B Nutri-B RANK-SHORT Len top 8% LEAD-RARE Rice Starch PHOTO-FINISH Mediterranean Style Hummus · ±0 BOOK-OFF …160108 · July 2026

6 of 26 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Rice Starch). Source sheet 70160108 · 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: Mediterranean Style Hummus · Nearest score peer is Mediterranean Style Hummus 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.

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

1. Lightly Breaded Chicken Breast Strips: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Lightly Breaded Chicken B…100/1002. Mediterranean Style Hummus: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Mediterranean Style Hummus100/1003. Mediterranean Style Hummus: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Mediterranean Style Hummus100/1004. Neuro-Mag: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Neuro-Mag100/1005. Blackberry Lemonade: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Blackberry Lemonade100/100
High-band neighbours for Lightly Breaded Chicken Breast Strips (100/100) outside Higher Harvest by H-E-B.
Chart values as text

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

Lightly Breaded Chicken Breast Strips
100/100
Mediterranean Style Hummus
100/100
Mediterranean Style Hummus
100/100
Neuro-Mag
100/100
Blackberry Lemonade
100/100

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. Lightly Breaded Chicken Breast Strips scores 7.6 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 92.4/100), so it is a comparatively strong pick 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

Lightly Breaded Chicken Breast Strips lists 26 ingredients on its label

26 92nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 92% of the 11,159 products we track

0–2: 79 products (1%). Below this entry. 2–4: 430 products (4%). Below this entry. 4–6: 612 products (5%). Below this entry. 6–8: 1,397 products (13%). Below this entry. 8–10: 1,485 products (13%). Below this entry. 10–12: 1,698 products (15%). Below this entry. 12–14: 1,463 products (13%). Below this entry. 14–16: 996 products (9%). Below this entry. 16–18: 734 products (7%). Below this entry. 18–20: 489 products (4%). Below this entry. 20–22: 377 products (3%). Below this entry. 22–24: 277 products (2%). Below this entry. 24–26: 234 products (2%). Below this entry. 26–28: 140 products (1%). This entry sits in this band. 28–30: 145 products (1%). Above this entry. 30–32: 92 products (1%). Above this entry. 32–34: 83 products (1%). Above this entry. 34–36: 66 products (1%). Above this entry. 36–38: 74 products (1%). Above this entry. 38–40: 50 products (0%). Above this entry. 40–42: 238 products (2%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Meats and their products 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

11,159 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 26 (92nd percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
79 products (1%)
2–4
430 products (4%)
4–6
612 products (5%)
6–8
1,397 products (13%)
8–10
1,485 products (13%)
10–12
1,698 products (15%)
12–14
1,463 products (13%)
14–16
996 products (9%)
16–18
734 products (7%)
18–20
489 products (4%)
20–22
377 products (3%)
22–24
277 products (2%)
24–26
234 products (2%)
26–28
140 products (1%)
28–30
145 products (1%)
30–32
92 products (1%)
32–34
83 products (1%)
34–36
66 products (1%)
36–38
74 products (1%)
38–40
50 products (0%)
40 and above
238 products (2%)

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.

Full Ingredient List

Chicken breast with rib meat, water, wheat flour, sugar, salt, rice starch, yeast extract, citrus extract, spices (including celery seed), paprika, dextrose, nonfat dry milk, dried egg whites, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate, corn starch, monocalcium phosphate), extractives of paprika, chicken fat, natural flavor, vegetable oil. Contains: wheat, milk, egg.

Categories

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High-score cross-brand comparables for Lightly Breaded Chicken Breast Strips

Neighbours outside Higher Harvest by H-E-B with screening scores in the same high band as Lightly Breaded Chicken Breast Strips (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Higher Harvest by H-E-B; these peers cross brands.

Read the longer label in layers

Read the longer label in layers

Lightly Breaded Chicken Breast Strips has a longer ingredient list than 92% of its Meats and their products category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.

This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.

Barcode 0197870160108: 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.