Mesquite Flavored Classic Fried Chicken Smoky and Sweet Dark Chicken Portions with Home-style Mashed Potatoes and Green Beans - Includes a Chocolate Brownie

How it compares with other frozen dinners and entrees

Per 100 g, it has more sugar than 86% of the 4,995 frozen dinners and entrees products in USDA's branded database, and it has more sodium than 81% of them.

Where the calories come from: 34% carbohydrate, 47% fat and 19% protein (4 calories a gram of protein or carbohydrate, 9 of fat).

What is in it

Ingredients (as submitted): MESQUITE FLAVORED FRIED CHICKEN (DARK MEAT CHICKEN PORTIONS, WATER, SOYBEAN OIL, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR [WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], MESQUITE BBQ SEASONING [SUGAR, MALTODEXTRIN, SALT, BROWN SUGAR, DEXTROSE, TORULA YEAST, AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, MOLASSES, NATURAL SMOKE FLAVOR {INCLUDING MESQUITE], NATURAL FLAVORS {INCLUDING EXTRACTIVES OF CELERY SEED}, GUM ARABIC, GRILL FLAVOR {FROM SUNFLOWER OIL}], SALT, SOY PROTEIN ISOLATE, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, SPICES), MASHED POTATOES (REHYDRATED POTATO FLAKES AND GRANULES [WATER, POTATOES, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, CITRIC ACID, SODIUM BISULFITE & BHT], SEASONING SAUCE [SOYBEAN OIL, WATER, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES WITH BHT AND CITRIC ACID TO PROTECT FLAVOR, BETA CAROTENE {COLOR}], SALT, DRIED DAIRY BLEND [WHEY, CALCIUM CASEINATE]), GREEN BEANS, BROWNIE (SUGAR, WATER, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR [WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], SOYBEAN OIL, COCOA POWDER, LIQUID WHOLE EGGS, SEASONING SAUCE [SOYBEAN OIL, WATER, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES WITH BHT AND CITRIC ACID TO PROTECT FLAVOR, BETA CAROTENE {COLOR}], ACACIA AND XANTHAN GUMS, SODIUM BICARBONATE [HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL], SALT, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR [CONTAINS VANILLA EXTRACTIVES AND CARAMEL COLOR]), SEASONED SAUCE (WATER, SUGAR, SALT).

The statement lists 5 ingredients at the top level, beginning with Mesquite Flavored Fried Chicken (dark Meat Chicken Portions, Water, Soybean Oil. 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 Jun 27, 2023), not the label on the shelf today.

Source: the ingredient statement Pinnacle Foods Group LLC submitted to USDA (FoodData Central 2608049).

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