Chicken Nuggets
Chicken Nuggets by Safeway Inc. has 1 tracked ingredient, with an overall safety score of 2 out of 5, 2.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is A, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.
- Safety score 2.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 3
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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. 1 of 1 ingredient tracked for Chicken Nuggets has 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 Nuggets sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
2 Top 100% in the bottom 1% 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
Processed foods are relatively simple products made by adding salt, oil, sugar, or other culinary ingredients to whole foods.
Full Ingredients List
CHICKEN, WATER, SALT, SODIUM PHOSPHATES. BATTERED WITH: WATER, ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), SALT, LEAVENING (MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE), BUTTERMILK POWDER (SWEET CREAM, W
Product Details
- Brand
- Safeway Inc.
- Barcode
- 0021130210008
- Nutri-Score
- Grade A
- NOVA Group
- 3 — Processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Chicken Nuggets above or below average on ingredient safety?
With an average ingredient safety score of 2/5, Chicken Nuggets sits behind 100% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 2.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Chicken Nuggets's 2/5 score be read?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Chicken Nuggets's mapped ingredients average out to 2/5, which is the Caution 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.