Baked Chicken

How it compares with other frozen dinners and entrees

Per 100 g, it has more sugar than 23% of the 4,995 frozen dinners and entrees products in USDA's branded database, and it has more sodium than 78% of them.

Where the calories come from: 44% carbohydrate, 26% fat and 30% protein (4 calories a gram of protein or carbohydrate, 9 of fat).

Other chicken in this aisle

1,702 of the 4,995 frozen dinners and entrees products are named chicken. Per 100 g their median is 129 calories, 295 mg of sodium and 7 g of protein; 1,328 have less sodium than this one.

What is in it

Ingredients (as submitted): MASHED POTATO (WATER, POTATOES [POTATOES, WATER, POTASSIUM SORBATE {PRESERVATIVE}, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE], POTATO FLAKES [POTATOES, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, CITRIC ACID], MILK [WITH VITAMIN D3], BUTTER [PASTEURIZED CREAM, SALT], SALT, SPICE), CHICKEN GRAVY (WATER, MODIFIED CORNSTARCH, CHABLIS COOKING WINE [WINE, SALT], CHICKEN BASE [CHICKEN MEAT INCLUDING CHICKEN JUICES, SALT, CHICKEN FAT, SUGAR, MALTODEXTRIN {CORN}, HYDROLYZED CORN GLUTEN, DRIED WHEY, NATURAL FLAVOR, YEAST EXTRACT, TURMERIC {COLOR}], ONION, SOYBEAN OIL, SAVORY CHICKEN BASE [CHICKEN MEAT INCLUDING CHICKEN JUICES, CORN OIL, AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, SUGAR, SALT, MALTODEXTRIN, NATURAL FLAVOR, POTATO STARCH, TURMERIC {COLOR}], NONFAT DRY MILK, CHICKEN FLAVOR [YEAST EXTRACT, SALT, CHICKEN POWDER, MALTODEXTRIN, SUGAR, SOY SAUCE SOLIDS {SOYBEANS, WHEAT, SALT}, TAPIOCA MALTODEXTRIN, CHICKEN FAT, SOY FLOUR, TORULA YEAST, FLAVOR, CARAMEL COLOR, CITRIC ACID, GRILL NATURAL FLAVOR, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, LACTIC ACID, CALCIUM LACTATE, SMOKE FLAVOR], GARLIC, FLAVORING [HYDROLYZED CORN GLUTEN, HYDROLYZED WHEAT GLUTEN, YEAST EXTRACT, SOYBEAN OIL], XANTHAN GUM, ONION POWDER, GARLIC POWDER, SPICE, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, CARAMEL COLOR), WHITE MEAT CHICKEN (CHICKEN BREAST WITH RIB MEAT, WATER, SOYBEAN OIL, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, CHICKEN BASE [DEXTROSE, SALT, CORN OIL, SOY SAUCE {WATER, WHEAT, SOYBEANS, SALT}, TOMATO PUREE, XANTHAN GUM AND LOCUST BEAN GUM, POTATO STARCH, EXTRACTIVES OF PAPRIKA, NATURAL FLAVORING], MILK PROTEIN CONCENTRATE [SODIUM CASEINATE AND WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE], SODIUM PHOSPHATES, CHICKEN BASE [CHICKEN MEAT INCLUDING CHICKEN JUICES, SALT, CHICKEN FAT, SUGAR, MALTODEXTRIN, HYDROLYZED CORN GLUTEN, DRIED WHEY, NATURAL FLAVORS, YEAST EXTRACT, TURMERIC {COLOR}], LACTIC ACID), CORN, CANOLA SAUCE (WATER, CANOLA OIL, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, SALT, YEAST EXTRACT [YEAST EXTRACT, SALT], BUTTER FLAVOR [DEHYDRATED BUTTER, BUTTERMILK POWDER, NATURAL FLAVOR, MALTODEXTRIN, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH], SPICE).

The statement lists 5 ingredients at the top level, beginning with Mashed Potato (water, Potatoes [potatoes, Water. It has no separate "Contains" line; a major allergen (the nine the FDA requires on labels: milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soybeans, sesame) may be named inside the ingredients instead. For allergies, read the package: this is the record USDA holds (updated Sep 5, 2020), not the label on the shelf today.

Source: the ingredient statement Safeway, Inc. submitted to USDA (FoodData Central 2112841).

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