Orange Chicken
Orange Chicken by Lean Cuisine has 2 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
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 Orange Chicken, 2 of its 2 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 Orange Chicken 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
Cooked sesame breaded chicken tenderloins (chicken tenderloins, water, wheat flour, yellow corn flour, bleached enriched wheat flour [wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], 2% or less of sesame seeds, modified food starch, seasoning [dried soy sauce {soybeans, wheat, salt}, maltodextrin, salt, natural flavor, autolyzed yeast extract, modified food starch, fructose, dried chicken broth, sugar, sesame oil, chicken fat], salt, leavening [cream of tartar, sodium bicarbonate], isolated soy protein, rice starch, roasted sesame oil, dextrose, sodium phosphates, garlic powder, onion powder, yeast, soybean oil, dried whole eggs, paprika and annatto extractives), cooked enriched long grain rice (water, rice, iron, niacin, thiamin mononitrate, folic acid), water, red bell peppers, yellow carrots, edamame soybeans, orange juice concentrate, sugar, soy sauce (water, soybeans, wheat, salt), modified cornstarch, chili garlic sauce (salted chili peppers [chil
Product Details
- Brand
- Lean Cuisine
- Barcode
- 0013800798732
- Nutri-Score
- Grade C
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Orange Chicken's safety score compare to other products?
With an average ingredient safety score of 4/5, Orange Chicken 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 Orange Chicken?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Orange Chicken's mapped ingredients average out to 4/5, which is 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.