Buffalo-style chicken & baby carrots with bleu cheese dip & celery
Buffalo-style chicken & baby carrots with bleu cheese dip & celery receives a safety score of 100/100 based on ingredient analysis using FDA Substances Added to Food (SAFFA) data and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings. None of the ingredients in this product are flagged for safety concerns by FDA or CSPI databases. Product label data is sourced from the OpenFoodFacts collaborative database. See the full ingredient breakdown and safety assessment below.
What the Data Says About
Buffalo-style chicken & baby carrots with bleu cheese dip & celery carries a composite safety score of 100/100, which we classify as "Safe" on our four-tier shelf-label framework. The score is computed by mapping each labeled ingredient against FDA Substances Added to Food (SAFFA) regulatory status and CSPI Chemical Cuisine classifications, then penalizing the overall product for each additive rated as caution-or-worse. Product data originates from the OpenFoodFacts collaborative catalog; safety annotations come from federal regulators and the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
Our scan did not identify any ingredients in this product that FDA SAFFA or CSPI Chemical Cuisine data flags as requiring caution or avoidance at the time of analysis. That is a meaningful clean-label signal, though it does not account for personal allergens, regional recalls, or inspection findings not reflected in federal additive databases. The per-ingredient breakdown below shows the source-level classification for each component.
On the NOVA processing scale, Buffalo-style chicken & baby carrots with bleu cheese dip & celery is classified as Group 4 (Ultra-processed). NOVA measures industrial processing intensity rather than ingredient-level safety, so it complements the SAFFA and CSPI ratings: a product can be clean on additive flags but heavily processed, or lightly processed but carry individually flagged ingredients. Combining both lenses gives a fuller picture than either alone. The Nutri-Score grade of D reflects nutritional balance — calories, saturated fat, sugar, sodium versus fiber, protein, and produce content — which again is a distinct dimension from additive safety and worth weighing alongside the scores above.
Safety Profile at a Glance
| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| PlainFoodSafe Score | 100/100 | FDA SAFFA + CSPI composite |
| Flagged ingredients | 0 | CSPI/FDA review |
| NOVA processing group | Group 4 | OpenFoodFacts |
| Nutri-Score | D | OpenFoodFacts |
Composite metric derived from FDA SAFFA, CSPI Chemical Cuisine, OpenFoodFacts. See methodology.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
Full Ingredient List
Breaded white chicken glazed in a buffalo style sauce (boneless, skinless chicken breast chunks with rib meat, water, wheat flour, modified food starch, sodium phosphates, salt, seasoning [salt, oil of garlic], battered with: water, wheat flour, modified food starch, tapioca dextrin, salt, dehydrated onion, dehydrated garlic, spices, leavening [sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate], breaded with: bread crumb [wheat flour, wheat starch, soy protein isolate, sugar, dried yeast, salt, caramel], spices, salt, predusted with: bleached wheat flour, modified wheat starch, wheat gluten, salt, dextrose, yellow corn flour, extractives of paprika and turmeric, breading set in vegetable oil, coated with: hot sauce [fresh red ripe peppers, distilled vinegar, salt], water, soybean oil, chili pepper, cellulose gum, modified food starch from waxy maize, salt, spice extractives), bleu cheese dip (soybean oil, water, bleu cheese [milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes], distilled vinegar, egg yolk, sugar, salt, sour cream powder [cream, nonfat milk solids, citric acid, lactic acid], xanthan gum, guar gum, natural flavor, dehydrated garlic), baby carrots, celery.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2025. Source: OpenFoodFacts, FDA SAFFA, CSPI Chemical Cuisine.
Product data from OpenFoodFacts (ODbL). Ingredient safety ratings from FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine. See our methodology for details.
This information is for reference only and does not constitute dietary or medical advice.
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