stouffer Nutri-Score D NOVA 4

Baked chicken

Baked chicken: 3.8/5 ingredient safety

Baked chicken by stouffer has 5 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.8 out of 5, 0.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is D.

  • Safety score 0.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

Frozen foods / Meals / Frozen ready-made meals

How This Score Is Built

PlainIngredients safety scores are a transparent, editorially-derived index synthesizing FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research into a single 1-5 scale, not an official government rating. 5 of 5 ingredients tracked for Baked chicken have a scored rating so far. Data current as of 2026-09-07.

Sourced from Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records. Verify with the FDA → See our full scoring methodology.

Where Baked chicken sits nationally

Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients

3.8 Top 84% higher than 16% of 58,710 scored products

Average ingredient safety score (1 = highest risk, 5 = safest), bucketed by value

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Source PlainIngredients ingredient safety index · 2026-09-07

3.8
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 3.8 out of 5
Based on 5 tracked ingredients
5
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
3
Low Risk / Safe
D
Nutri-Score

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

4
NOVA Group 4
Ultra-processed foods

Ultra-processed products are formulations made mostly or entirely from substances derived from foods and additives. They typically contain ingredients not commonly used in home cooking.

Full Ingredients List

Cooked chicken breast fillets (chicken breast fillets, water, brown sugar, carrageenan, modified food starch, canola oil, chicken flavor [dried chicken broth, chicken powder, flavor, salt], sodium phosphates, white pepper, salt, paprika), potatoes, water, cream, 2% or less of chicken broth, skim milk, onions, modified food starch, chicken fat, salt, sour cream (cultured cream, skim milk, enzymes), bleached wheat flour, soybean oil, maltodextrin, mono - & diglycerides, caramel color, seasoning (maltodextrin, flavor, enzyme modified butterfat), spices, chicken and chicken broth (water, chicken broth), autolyzed yeast extract, carrageenan, cultured whey, potassium chloride, dried garlic, natural flavors, onion powder, soy sauce (wheat, soybeans, salt), xanthan gum, turmeric, dextrose, annatto & turmeric color.

Compare beyond brand

Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth

Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Baked chicken: nearest mean mapped additive safety score and nearest mapped ingredient count among indexable products with at least 3 scored additives, excluding same-brand siblings. Scores describe regulatory and research signals on additives, not dietary advice.

Product Details

Barcode
0013800101709
Nutri-Score
Grade D
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

How does Baked chicken's safety score compare to other products?

With an average ingredient safety score of 3.8/5, Baked chicken sits behind 84% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What does a 3.8/5 ingredient safety score mean?

PlainIngredients scores each ingredient 1 (highest risk) to 5 (safest) from FDA and EU regulatory status, then averages the scores of every ingredient this product lists that we could map. A 3.8/5 average places Baked chicken in the Low Risk tier.

Every figure on PlainIngredients is rendered directly from FDA, EU, EFSA and U.S. state regulatory records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.