Chicken and Dumplings
Chicken and Dumplings by Hormel has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
- Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
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. 2 of 2 ingredients tracked for Chicken and Dumplings 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 Chicken and Dumplings sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4 Top 80% higher than 20% 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
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
chicken broth (contains ascorbic acid, flavor), white chicken wet (white chicken meat, water, modified food starch, salt, sodium phosphate whe dumpling (enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], water, vegetable oil (soybean and or canola salt), contains 2% or less of chicken fat, modified cornstarch, potato starch, salt hydrolyzed corn protein, flavoring, chicken flavoring (autolyzed yeast extract chicken, flavors, salt, chicken fat), yeast extract, spices, paprika, turmeric
Product Details
- Brand
- Hormel
- Barcode
- 0037600368056
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Chicken and Dumplings's safety score compare to other products?
With an average ingredient safety score of 4/5, Chicken and Dumplings sits behind 80% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 4/5 rating on Chicken and Dumplings?
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 4/5 average places Chicken and Dumplings 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.