Buffalo Style Boneless Chicken Bites
Buffalo Style Boneless Chicken Bites by Tyson has 4 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.5 out of 5, 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is D, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.
- Safety score 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
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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. 4 of 4 ingredients tracked for Buffalo Style Boneless Chicken Bites 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 Buffalo Style Boneless Chicken Bites sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3.5 Top 91% higher than 9% 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
- Sodium Phosphates - Safety score: 2/5
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
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
White meat chicken, water, enriched wheat flour (niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), wheat flour, vinegar, aged cayenne peppers, contains 2% or less of: caramel color, carob bean gum, dehydrated garlic, dehydrated onion, dextrose, dried yeast, egg solids, granulated garlic, guar gum, leavening (sodium bicarbonate and sodium aluminum phosphate), malted barley flour, maltodextrin, modified corn starch, modified food starch, natural flavor, nonfat milk, oils (soybean oil, canola oil, palm oil), oleoresin paprika, salt, sodium alginate, sodium diacetate, sodium phosphates, soy flour, spice extractives (including extractives of paprika), spices, tbhq (to protect flavor), vinegar powder (maltodextrin, modified food starch, vinegar), whey, xanthan gum and yellow corn flour. breading set in vegetable oil.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Buffalo Style Boneless Chicken Bites: 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.
Similar mean additive safety
Nearest products by average mapped safety score. This record: 3.5/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 4.
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Product Details
- Brand
- Tyson
- Barcode
- 0023700014054
- Nutri-Score
- Grade D
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Buffalo Style Boneless Chicken Bites above or below average on ingredient safety?
Buffalo Style Boneless Chicken Bites scores 3.5 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 91% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Buffalo Style Boneless Chicken Bites's 3.5/5 score be read?
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 3.5/5 average places Buffalo Style Boneless Chicken Bites in the Mixed Evidence 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.