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Chicken breast & gravy with mashed potatoes with rib meat roasted white meat chicken with creamy mashed potatoes and flavorful chicken gravy

Chicken breast & gravy with mashed potatoes with rib meat roasted white meat chicken with creamy mashed potatoes and flavorful chicken gravy: 3.5/5 ingredient safety

Chicken breast & gravy with mashed potatoes with rib meat roasted white meat chicken with creamy mashed potatoes and flavorful chicken gravy by Hormel has 2 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.

  • Safety score 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

How This Score Is Built

Chicken breast & gravy with mashed potatoes with rib meat roasted white meat chicken with creamy mashed potatoes and flavorful chicken gravy draws on FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research, combined into a single editorially-derived 1-5 scale (never an official government rating). 2 of its 2 tracked ingredients are scored so far; data as of 2026-09-07.

Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records feed this score. The FDA site → has the primary record; our methodology page explains the scoring.

Where Chicken breast & gravy with mashed potatoes with rib meat roasted white meat chicken with creamy mashed potatoes and flavorful chicken gravy 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

3.5
Mixed Evidence
Average ingredient safety: 3.5 out of 5
Based on 2 tracked ingredients
2
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
1
Low Risk / Safe
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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

rehydrated potatoes (water, potatoes, mono - and diglycerides, sodium acid pyrophosphate, citric acid), chicken breast with rib meat (contains up to 20% solution of water, modified food starch, salt and sodium phosphate), chicken stock (contains flavor), contains 2% or less of corn flour, chicken fat, modified cornstarch, hydrolyzed corn protein, salt, yeast extract, sugar, flavoring, sodium bisulfite, spices, annatto color, seasoning (maltodextrin, natural flavoring [contains soybean], ascorbic acid [to help protect flavor]), sodium metabisulfite,

Product Details

Brand
Hormel
Barcode
0037600492317
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

How does Chicken breast & gravy with mashed potatoes with rib meat roasted white meat chicken with creamy mashed potatoes and flavorful chicken gravy's safety score compare to other products?

With an average ingredient safety score of 3.5/5, Chicken breast & gravy with mashed potatoes with rib meat roasted white meat chicken with creamy mashed potatoes and flavorful chicken gravy sits behind 91% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What's behind the 3.5/5 rating on Chicken breast & gravy with mashed potatoes with rib meat roasted white meat chicken with creamy mashed potatoes and flavorful chicken gravy?

The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Chicken breast & gravy with mashed potatoes with rib meat roasted white meat chicken with creamy mashed potatoes and flavorful chicken gravy'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.