Tyson Nutri-Score D NOVA 4

Chicken Strips Honey BBQ

Chicken Strips Honey BBQ: 3.3/5 ingredient safety

Chicken Strips Honey BBQ by Tyson has 4 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.3 out of 5, 0.82 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 0.82 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

Frozen foods / Meats and their products / Meats / Chicken and its products / Poultries / Chickens

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 Chicken Strips Honey BBQ 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 Strips Honey BBQ sits nationally

Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients

3.3 Top 93% higher than 7% 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

3.3
Mixed Evidence
Average ingredient safety: 3.3 out of 5
Based on 4 tracked ingredients
4
Tracked Ingredients
1
Concerning
1
Low Risk / Safe
D
Nutri-Score
1 ingredient flagged for safety concerns

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

Boneless, skinless chicken with rib meat, water, enriched wheat flour (niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), bleached wheat flour, brown sugar, corn syrup, sugar, wheat flour, contains 2% or less of the following: dextrose, distilled vinegar, dried whey, dried yeast, extractives of garlic and onion, extractives of paprika, garlic powder, high fructose corn syrup, honey, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate), malted barley, flour, modified food starch, mustard (distilled vinegar, water, mustard seed, salt, turmeric, paprika, spice, garlic powder), natural smoke flavor, oils (soybean oil, canola oil, palm oil), onion powder, paprika, polysorbate 80, salt, sodium benzoate (as a preservative), sodium phosphates, soy lecithin, soybean oil, spice extractives, spices, tbhq (to protect flavor), tomato paste, vinegar powder (maltodextrin, modified corn starch, vinegar solids), worcestershire sauce powder [corn syrup solids, salt, caramel color,

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Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth

Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Chicken Strips Honey BBQ: 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.

Product Details

Brand
Tyson
Barcode
0023700014139
Nutri-Score
Grade D
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

How does Chicken Strips Honey BBQ's safety score compare to other products?

Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Chicken Strips Honey BBQ's 3.3/5 average puts it in the lower 93%, 0.82 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

How should Chicken Strips Honey BBQ's 3.3/5 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 3.3/5 average places Chicken Strips Honey BBQ 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.