Product Insight: White meat chicken salad
White meat chicken salad by Market Basket is tracked in PlainIngredients with 1 identified ingredient and carries an overall safety rating of 5 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 Its Nutri-Score grade is D, the European front-of-pack nutritional label summarizing calories, saturated fat, sodium, sugar, protein, fiber, and produce content. Within the identified ingredient list, no ingredient on this product currently carries a Caution or High-Risk flag in our database, while 1 ingredient 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
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
White chicken meat, mayonnaise (soybean oil, water, whole eggs and egg yolks, vinegar, salt, sugar, lemon juice [from concentrate], oleoresin paprika, natural flavors, calcium disodium edta [used to protect quality]), white chicken pieces (white chicken, water, salt, modified food starch, sodium phosphates), celery, salad dressing (water, soybean oil, sugar, distilled vinegar, modified corn starch, egg yolks, contains less than 2% mustard [distilled vinegar, water, mustard seed, salt], salt, spices, torula yeast, paprika [for color], natural flavors, xanthan gum, potassium sorbate [preservative]), bread crumbs (bleached wheat flour, yeast, sugar, and salt), seasoning (maltodextrin, cultured dextrose, sodium diacetate, salt, sodium chloride, egg white lysozyme, nisin preparation), salt, sugar, cider vinegar (cider and white), citric acid (antioxidant), spice.
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
- Market Basket
- Barcode
- 0036217160602
- Nutri-Score
- Grade D
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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