Hungry-man, classic fried chicken, mesquite
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0658276203023 · Frozen foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Hungry-man, classic fried chicken, mesquite scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 58 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 58-component record, beginning with Mesquite Flavored Fried Chicken, Dark Meat Chicken Portions, Chicken Stock. 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 58 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.
76203023 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Hungry-man, classic fried chicken, mesquite label screening desk
17 of 58 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 76203023 · 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
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.
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. Hungry-man, classic fried chicken, mesquite 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
Hungry-man, classic fried chicken, mesquite lists 58 ingredients on its label
58 87th percentile a longer ingredient list than 87% of the 7,008 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 11 products (0%)
- 2–4
- 54 products (1%)
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- 54 products (1%)
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- 66 products (1%)
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- 102 products (1%)
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- 112 products (2%)
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- 184 products (3%)
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- 205 products (3%)
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- 245 products (3%)
- 18–20
- 284 products (4%)
- 20–22
- 264 products (4%)
- 22–24
- 298 products (4%)
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- 247 products (4%)
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- 271 products (4%)
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- 284 products (4%)
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- 325 products (5%)
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- 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 58 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Mesquite flavored fried chicken (dark meat chicken portions, chicken stock, soybean oil, enriched wheat flour [wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], mesquite bbq seasoning [sugar, maltodextrin, salt, brown sugar, dextrose, torula yeast, autolyzed yeast extract, molasses, natural smoke flavor [including mesquite], natural flavors [including extractives of celery seed], gum arabic, grill flavor [from sunflower oil]), salt, soy protein isolate, sodium phosphates, monosodium glutamate, spice), mashed potatoes (water, dehydrated potato flakes [potatoes, mono and diglycerides, sodium acid pyrophosphate, citric acid], seasoning sauce [soybean oil, water, mono and diglycerides with bht and citric acid to protect flavor, beta carotene for color (corn oil, dl-alpha-tocopherol)], contains less than 2% of: salt, dried dairy blend [whey, calcium caseinate]), green beans, brownie (sugar, water, enriched wheat flour [wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], soybean oil, cocoa, eggs, seasoning sauce [soybean oil, water, mono and diglycerides with bht and citric acid to protect flavor, beta carotene for color (corn oil, dl-alpha-tocopherol)], acacia and xanthan gums, sodium bicarbonate [hydrogenated vegetable oil], salt, natural and artificial flavor [water, propylene glycol, ethanol, natural and artificial flavor [water, propylene glycol, ethanol, natural and artificial flavor, caramel color, vanilla extractives]), seasoning sauce (water, sugar, seasoning sauce [soybean oil, water, mono and diglycerides with bht and citric acid to protect flavor, beta carotene for color (corn oil, dl-alpha-tocopherol]), salt, soybean oil), seasoning sauce (soybean oil, water, mono and diglycerides with bht and citric acid to protect flavor, beta carotene for color [corn oil, dl-alpha-tocopherol]).
Categories
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from Hungry-man, classic fried chicken, mesquite's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 58-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
- Compare Hungry-man, classic fried chicken, mesquite'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 0658276203023: 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.