Lightly Coated Chicken Breast Bites
Lightly Coated Chicken Breast Bites by Simple Truth has 3 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, 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
Meats and their products / Meat preparations / Chicken and its products / Breaded products / Chicken preparations / Breaded chicken / Poultry nuggets / Chicken nuggets
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. 3 of 3 ingredients tracked for Lightly Coated Chicken Breast Bites 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 Lightly Coated Chicken Breast Bites 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
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more scored products. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source PlainIngredients ingredient safety index · 2026-09-07
- Sodium Phosphates - Safety score: 2/5
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
CHICKEN BREAST MEAT WITH RIB MEAT,, CHICKEN BROTH,, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF YELLOW CORN, FLOUR, RICE FLOUR, SALT, WHEAT FLOUR, MODIFIED CORN, STARCH, MODIFIED TAPIOCA STARCH, SODIUM PHOSPHATES,, MALTODEXTRIN, SUGAR, CARRAGEENAN, SMOKE FLAVOR,, DEHYDRATED COOKED CHICKEN AND NATURAL FLAVOR,, CHICKEN FAT AND FLAVORING, HYDROLYZED CORN PROTEIN,, DEHYDRATED ONION, DEHYDRATED CHICKEN BROTH,, LEAVENING (SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, SODIUM, BICARBONATE), DEHYDRATED GARLIC, SOY SAUCE (SOYBEANS,, WHEAT, SALT), CHICKEN FLAVOR, FLAVOR (SUNFLOWER,, CANOLA AND SOYBEAN OIL), DEXTROSE, CITRIC ACID, GUAR, GUM, NATURAL FLAVOR.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Lightly Coated Chicken Breast Bites: 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: 3.3/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 3.
Product Details
- Brand
- Simple Truth
- Barcode
- 0011110122872
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
- Stores
- Kroger
Find Products
Frequently asked questions
Where does Lightly Coated Chicken Breast Bites rank on ingredient safety?
With an average ingredient safety score of 3.3/5, Lightly Coated Chicken Breast Bites sits behind 93% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.82 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Lightly Coated Chicken Breast Bites's 3.3/5 score be read?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Lightly Coated Chicken Breast Bites's mapped ingredients average out to 3.3/5, 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.