Buffalo Style Chicken Strips
Buffalo Style Chicken Strips by Tyson has 6 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
Frozen foods
How This Score Is Built
This 1-5 scale is an editorially-derived index, not an official government rating -- it synthesizes FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research. For Buffalo Style Chicken Strips, 6 of its 6 tracked ingredients carry a scored rating so far, current as of 2026-09-07.
Data draws on Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records -- cross-check with the FDA → directly, or read how we score it.
Where Buffalo Style Chicken Strips 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
Boneless, skinless chicken breast with rib meat, chicken broth, bleached wheat flour, vinegar, aged cayenne peppers, wheat flour, salt, less than 2% of the following: modified corn starch, spices, maltodextrin, yellow corn flour, sodium phosphates, modified tapioca starch, vinegar powder (maltodextrin modified food starch, and vinegar), sodium diacetate, dextrose, sugar, dehydrated onion, dehydrated garlic, xanthan gum, yeast, guar gum, spice extractives, caramel color, oleoresin paprika, carob bean gum, natural flavor, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate), onion powder, polysorbate 80, extractives of paprika and granulated garlic. breading set in vegetable oil.
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Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Buffalo Style Chicken Strips: 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: 6.
Product Details
- Brand
- Tyson
- Barcode
- 0023700014092
- Nutri-Score
- Grade D
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Buffalo Style Chicken Strips rank on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Buffalo Style Chicken Strips's 3.5/5 average puts it in the lower 91%, 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Buffalo Style Chicken Strips's 3.5/5 score be read?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Buffalo Style Chicken Strips's mapped ingredients average out to 3.5/5, which is 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.