Oven Fried Chicken with Buffalo-Style Mac and Cheese
Oven Fried Chicken with Buffalo-Style Mac and Cheese by Lean Cuisine has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.5 out of 5, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is D.
- Safety score 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
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How This Score Is Built
Oven Fried Chicken with Buffalo-Style Mac and Cheese 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). 2 of its 2 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 Oven Fried Chicken with Buffalo-Style Mac and Cheese sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.5 Top 29% higher than 71% 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 pasta (water, semolina wheat flour, wheat gluten), skim milk, oven fried breaded chicken breast with rib meat (chicken breast with rib meat, wheat flour, water, soybean oil, rice flour, modified wheat starch, 2% or less of modified cornstarch, salt, tapioca dextrin, sugar, modified tapioca starch, wheat gluten, palm oil, leavening [sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda], garlic powder, onion powder, celery seed, maltodextrin, natural flavor, sodium phosphate, chicken flavor [chicken broth, flavor, salt], yeast, paprika and annatto extracts), water, reduced fat vermont cheddar cheese (cultured low fat milk, salt, enzymes, vitamin a palmitate), buffalo style sauce (distilled vinegar, cayenne peppers, salt, water, modified food starch, canola oil, paprika, carrot fiber, xanthan gum, natural flavor, garlic powder), cheddar club cheese (cheddar cheese [cultured milk, salt, enzymes], water, salt, annatto color), 2% or less of cheddar cheese (cultured milk, salt, enzymes, annatto colo
Product Details
- Brand
- Lean Cuisine
- Barcode
- 0013800109354
- Nutri-Score
- Grade D
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Oven Fried Chicken with Buffalo-Style Mac and Cheese rank on ingredient safety?
Oven Fried Chicken with Buffalo-Style Mac and Cheese scores 4.5 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, safer than 71% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Oven Fried Chicken with Buffalo-Style Mac and Cheese's 4.5/5 score be read?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Oven Fried Chicken with Buffalo-Style Mac and Cheese's 4.5/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it in the Low Risk tier.
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