Popcorn chicken
Popcorn chicken by Kroger has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 2.5 out of 5, 1.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is D, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.
- Safety score 1.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Meats and their products / Meats / Chicken and its products / Poultries / Chickens
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 Popcorn 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 Popcorn chicken sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
2.5 Top 98% higher than 2% 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
- 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, wheat flour, water, salt, modified corn starch, bleached wheat flour, sugar, spices, sodium phosphates, caramel color, extractives of paprika, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate), yeast, dextrose, spice extractives, onion powder, extractives of garlic. Contains wheat.
Product Details
- Brand
- Kroger
- Barcode
- 0011110159014
- Nutri-Score
- Grade D
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
- Stores
- Kroger
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Frequently asked questions
How does Popcorn chicken's safety score compare to other products?
Popcorn chicken scores 2.5 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 98% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 1.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 2.5/5 ingredient safety score mean?
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 2.5/5 average places Popcorn chicken in the Caution 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.