Banquet NOVA 4

Mega Meats Buffalo Style Boneless Strips

Product Insight: Mega Meats Buffalo Style Boneless Strips

Mega Meats Buffalo Style Boneless Strips by Banquet is tracked in PlainIngredients with 4 identified ingredients and carries an overall safety rating of 4 out of 5 — a Low-Risk-to-Safe tier backed by FDA and EU regulatory status. On the NOVA processing scale, this product falls into Group 4 (Ultra-processed foods), a standard framework for classifying how heavily food has been industrially modified before reaching the shelf, and no Nutri-Score label has been assigned by Open Food Facts contributors. Within the identified ingredient list, 1 ingredient is currently flagged as Caution or High Risk and warrant individual review via the linked ingredient pages, while 3 ingredients sit at the Low-Risk or Safe end of the scale.

Our composite score weighs each ingredient's U.S. FDA regulatory status (GRAS, Approved, or Banned), European Union food-additive status under Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, any U.S. state-level restrictions, and signals drawn from peer-reviewed toxicology literature. The per-product score is the mean of the per-ingredient ratings and should be read as a structured summary rather than a clinical verdict; edge cases such as cumulative exposure, individual allergies, and dietary interactions are not captured by a single number and are better addressed by reading the individual ingredient pages linked below.

Sources: Open Food Facts (product + ingredient list, CC0 licensed) · FDA SAFFA · EU Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 · U.S. state food-safety statutes

4
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 4 out of 5
Based on 4 tracked ingredients
4
Tracked Ingredients
1
Concerning
3
Low Risk / Safe
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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

buffalo style white meat chicken patty strips: chicken patties (white meat chicken, water, isolated soy proten, sal, sodium phosphates, autolyzed yeast extract, natural flavorings, breader (bleached wheat flour, salt, dextrose, yeast, spce extractives of paprikaji, batter (water, yellow corn flour, corn starch, dextrose, salt, spices, sugar, autolyzed yeast extract, modifed corm starch, garlic powder, guar gum, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate, monocalcum phosphate). fried in vegetable oil), sauce (water, cayenne pepper sauce jaged cayenne red peppers, distille vinegar, water, salt, garlic powder, soybean oil, sugar, distlled vinegar, flavorings, xanthan gum, extractives of paprika). macaroni and cheese sauce: sauce (water, cheddar club cheese (pasteurized cultured milk, salt, bizymes, annatto (color). modified whey, soybean oil, modifed corn starch, nonfat dry milk, salt, cheddar cheese flavor (cheddar chee (pasteurized milk, cultures, salt, enzymes, water, lac

Data Sources

  • Open Food Facts — Product data and ingredient lists
  • FDA Substances Added to Food (SAFFA) Inventory — Safety scores
  • EU Food Additive Regulations (EC) No 1333/2008

Product Details

Brand
Banquet
Barcode
0031000003814
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Data sourced from official EWG, FDA GRAS, and ingredient toxicology databases. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainIngredients Editorial

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