Chicken with Sesame Sauce Breaded White Meat Chicken in An Asian-style Sesame Sauce with Whole Wheat Spaghetti & Vegetables

How it compares with other frozen dinners and entrees

Per 100 g, it has more sugar than 92% of the 4,995 frozen dinners and entrees products in USDA's branded database, and it has more sodium than 14% of them.

Where the calories come from: 61% carbohydrate, 22% fat and 17% protein (4 calories a gram of protein or carbohydrate, 9 of fat).

Other vegetables in this aisle

345 of the 4,995 frozen dinners and entrees products are named vegetables. Per 100 g their median is 116 calories, 259 mg of sodium and 5.7 g of protein; 60 have less sodium than this one.

What is in it

Ingredients (as submitted): BREADED CHICKEN WHITE MEAT NUGGETS (CHICKEN BREAST WITH RIB MEAT, WATER, BREAD CRUMBS [BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR {NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID}, DEXTROSE, SALT, YEAST], BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR [NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], BATTER [YELLOW CORN FLOUR, BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR {NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID}, SALT, LEAVENING {SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE}, GUAR GUM, NONFAT MILK, SPICES, DRIED EGG], MODIFIED CORN STARCH, ONION POWDER, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, GARLIC POWDER, SALT, HYDROLYZED VEGETABLE PROTEIN [HYDROLYZED CORN GLUTEN, HYDROLYZED WHEAT GLUTEN, YEAST EXTRACT], DEXTROSE, SPICES, NONFAT DRY MILK, SOYBEAN OIL), COOKED WHOLE WHEAT SPAGHETTI (WATER, WHOLE WHEAT DURUM FLOUR, CARRAGEENAN), SESAME SAUCE (WATER, PLUM SAUCE [SUGAR, WATER, PLUM, SALT, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, DISTILLED WHITE VINEGAR, GINGER, GARLIC, RED BELL PEPPER, MALIC ACID, XANTHAN GUM, CITRIC ACID, CALCIUM CHLORIDE, SODIUM BENZOATE {PRESERVATIVE}], SUGAR, SOY SAUCE [WATER, WHEAT, SOYBEANS, SALT, LACTIC ACID, SODIUM BENZOATE {PRESERVATIVE}], MODIFIED CORN STARCH, SESAME OIL, SHERRY WINE [WINE, SALT], LEMON JUICE [WATER, LEMON JUICE CONCENTRATE], WHITE VINEGAR, GINGER PUREE [GINGER, WATER, PHOSPHORIC ACID], GARLIC [CITRIC ACID], CHICKEN BASE [CHICKEN MEAT INCLUDING CHICKEN JUICES, SALT, CHICKEN FAT, SUGAR, MALTODEXTRIN, HYDROLYZED CORN GLUTEN, DRIED WHEY, NATURAL FLAVORS, YEAST EXTRACT, TURMERIC {COLOR}], VINEGAR POWDER [MALTODEXTRIN, VINEGAR], CARAMEL COLOR, SESAME SEEDS, CRUSHED CHILI PEPPERS), GREEN BEANS, RED BELL PEPPERS.

The statement lists 5 ingredients at the top level, beginning with Breaded Chicken White Meat Nuggets (chicken Breast with Rib Meat, Water, Bread Crumbs [bleached Wheat Flour {niacin. 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 Jan 28, 2022), not the label on the shelf today.

Source: the ingredient statement Glencourt Inc. submitted to USDA (FoodData Central 2416948).

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