The Ultimate Fish Stick
The Ultimate Fish Stick by Trident Seafoods has 1 tracked ingredient, 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 A.
- Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Seafood / Fishes and their products / Fishes / Frozen foods / Fish preparations / Frozen seafood / Breaded products / Frozen fishes / Breaded fish
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 The Ultimate Fish Stick, 1 of its 1 tracked ingredient carries 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 The Ultimate Fish Stick 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
65% fish (alaska pollock), 35% batter & breading (whole wheat flour, vegetable oil (soybean and/or canola), enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrated, riboflavin, folic acid), water, contains 2% or less of: whole grain yellow corn meal, ranch seasoning (maltodextrin, salt, dehydrated onion, dehydrated garlic, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, natrual flavor (maltodextrin), modified food starch, buttermilk, natural flavor), corn starch, salt, vital wheat gluten, rice starch, yeast, leavening (cream of tartar, baking soda), tapioca starch, enriched and unrefined malted barley flour (malted barley flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid)).
Product Details
- Brand
- Trident Seafoods
- Barcode
- 0028029196443
- Nutri-Score
- Grade A
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
- Stores
- Costco
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Frequently asked questions
How does The Ultimate Fish Stick's safety score compare to other products?
With an average ingredient safety score of 4/5, The Ultimate Fish Stick 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 does a 4/5 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 4/5 average places The Ultimate Fish Stick in 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.