Food lion, chicken sandwich, hot & spicy
Food lion, chicken sandwich, hot & spicy by Food Lion has 3 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is C.
- Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
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How This Score Is Built
Food lion, chicken sandwich, hot & spicy 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). 3 of its 3 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 Food lion, chicken sandwich, hot & spicy 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
Fully cooked breaded spicy chicken breast patty with rib meat: chicken breast with rib meat, enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, salt, bread crumbs (bleached wheat flour, yeast, dextrose, salt), cracker meal [wheat flour, leavening (sodium aluminum phosphate, sodium bicarbonate)], modified food starch, sodium phosphate extractives of paprika, leavening (sodium bicarbonate, sodium aluminum phosphate), wheat gluten, dried egg whites, flavor (gum arabic, spice extractive), yellow corn flour, nonfat dry milk, seasoning (salt, mustard flour, maltodextrin, chili pepper, paprika, spices, extractives of paprika, extractives of turmeric), set in vegetable oil. bun: enriched bleached wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid, enzyme), water, sugar, soybean oil, contains 2% or less of: yellow corn meal, yeast (yeast sorbitan monostearate, ascorbic acid), salt, calcium prop
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Food lion, chicken sandwich, hot & spicy: 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: 4/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 3.
Product Details
- Brand
- Food Lion
- Barcode
- 0035826088475
- Nutri-Score
- Grade C
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Food lion, chicken sandwich, hot & spicy's safety score compare to other products?
With an average ingredient safety score of 4/5, Food lion, chicken sandwich, hot & spicy 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 Food lion, chicken sandwich, hot & spicy?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Food lion, chicken sandwich, hot & spicy's 4/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it 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.