General Tso's Chicken
General Tso's Chicken by Smart Ones has 5 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.2 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is B.
- 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
This 1-5 scale is an editorially-derived index, not an official government rating -- it synthesizes FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research. For General Tso's Chicken, 5 of its 5 tracked ingredients carry a scored rating so far, current as of 2026-09-07.
Data draws on Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records -- cross-check with the FDA → directly, or read how we score it.
Where General Tso's Chicken sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.2 Top 40% higher than 60% 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
Sauce (water, reduced sodium soy sauce [water, wheat, soybeans, salt, alcohol, vinegar, lactic acid], sugar, green onions, modified corn starch, salted mirin wine [sake (water, rice, koji [aspergillus oryzae]), sugar, water, salt, yeast extract], sherry wine [sherry wine, salt, sulfites], garlic, soybean oil, roasted sesame oil, salted chili pepper [chili peppers, salt], ginger, sesame seeds, xanthan gum, dehydrated chile de arbol peppers, onion juice concentrate, rice vinegar, salt, hydrolyzed soy and corn protein, acetic acid, soy protein concentrate, autolyzed yeast extract, onion powder, flavoring, soy protein isolate, garlic powder, turmeric), cooked enriched rice (water, enriched white rice [white rice, iron, niacin, thiamine mononitrate, folic acid]), cooked sesame flavored breaded chicken tenderloins (chicken tenderloins, water, sesame seasoning [salt, yeast extract, sugar, dried soy sauce (soybeans, wheat, salt), chicken stock, maltodextrin, potassium chloride, sesame oil, oni
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for General Tso's Chicken: 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: 4.2/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 5.
Product Details
- Brand
- Smart Ones
- Barcode
- 0025800048045
- Nutri-Score
- Grade B
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does General Tso's Chicken rank on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, General Tso's Chicken's 4.2/5 average puts it in the safer 60%, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 4.2/5 rating on General Tso's Chicken?
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 4.2/5 average places General Tso's Chicken 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.