Product Insight: Baked Popcorn Chicken
Baked Popcorn Chicken by Earth's Best is tracked in PlainIngredients with 1 identified ingredient and carries an overall safety rating of 4 out of 5 — a Low-Risk-to-Safe tier backed by FDA and EU regulatory status. On the NOVA processing scale, this product falls into Group 3 (Processed foods), a standard framework for classifying how heavily food has been industrially modified before reaching the shelf, and Its Nutri-Score grade is A, the European front-of-pack nutritional label summarizing calories, saturated fat, sodium, sugar, protein, fiber, and produce content. Within the identified ingredient list, no ingredient on this product currently carries a Caution or High-Risk flag in our database, while 1 ingredient sit at the Low-Risk or Safe end of the scale.
Our composite score weighs each ingredient's U.S. FDA regulatory status (GRAS, Approved, or Banned), European Union food-additive status under Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, any U.S. state-level restrictions, and signals drawn from peer-reviewed toxicology literature. The per-product score is the mean of the per-ingredient ratings and should be read as a structured summary rather than a clinical verdict; edge cases such as cumulative exposure, individual allergies, and dietary interactions are not captured by a single number and are better addressed by reading the individual ingredient pages linked below.
Sources: Open Food Facts (product + ingredient list, CC0 licensed) · FDA SAFFA · EU Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 · U.S. state food-safety statutes
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
Processed foods are relatively simple products made by adding salt, oil, sugar, or other culinary ingredients to whole foods.
Full Ingredients List
CHICKEN MEAT, WATER, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF THE FOLLOWING. EVAPORATED CANE SYRUP, GARLIC POWDER, ONION POWDER, RICE STARCH, SEA SALT, SPICE. BATTERED & BREADED WITH: WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR, WATER, WHEAT FLOUR, CORN STARCH, EVAPORATED CANE SYRUP, SEA SALT, LEAVENING (BAKING SODA, CREAM OF TARTAR), GARLIC POWDER, YELLOW CORN FLOUR, YEAST, ONION POWDER, SPICE, SUNFLOWER OIL, EXTRACTIVE OF TURMERIC. BREADING SET IN EXPELLER PRESSED CANOLA OIL AND/OR SOYBEAN OIL AND/OR SAFFLOWER OIL.
Data Sources
- Open Food Facts — Product data and ingredient lists
- FDA Substances Added to Food (SAFFA) Inventory — Safety scores
- EU Food Additive Regulations (EC) No 1333/2008
Product Details
- Brand
- Earth's Best
- Barcode
- 0023923206335
- Nutri-Score
- Grade A
- NOVA Group
- 3 — Processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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