Orange Chicken Battered White Meat Chicken with a Spicy Orange Sauce Served with Fried Rice, Sweet Orange & Yellow Carrots and Savory Shelled Edamame

How it compares with other frozen dinners and entrees

Per 100 g, it has more sugar than 97% of the 4,995 frozen dinners and entrees products in USDA's branded database, and it has more sodium than 67% of them.

Where the calories come from: 55% carbohydrate, 30% fat and 16% protein (4 calories a gram of protein or carbohydrate, 9 of fat).

Other rice in this aisle

842 of the 4,995 frozen dinners and entrees products are named rice. Per 100 g their median is 120 calories, 263 mg of sodium and 5.7 g of protein; 702 have less sodium than this one.

What is in it

Ingredients (as submitted): FRIED RICE (COOKED WHITE RICE, CARROTS, YELLOW CARROTS, SHELLED EDAMAME (SOYBEANS], SCRAMBLED EGG WHITE PRODUCT EGG WHITES, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, NONFAT MILK, WHEY PROTEIN ISOLATE, SOYBEAN OIL, CARRAGEENAN, SALT, NATURAL EGG FLAVOR, GUAR GUM, XANTHAN GUM, ANNATTO {COLOR}], WATER, GREEN ONIONS, SOY SAUCE [WATER, WHEAT, SOYBEANS, SALT, LACTIC ACID, SODIUM BENZOATE {PRESERVATIVE}], GINGER PUREE [GINGER, WATER, PHOSPHORIC ACID], SESAME OIL, SOYBEAN OIL, 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 FLAVOR {FROM VEGETABLE OIL}, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, LACTIC ACID, CALCIUM LACTATE, SMOKE FLAVOR], ORIENTAL SPICE BASE [SAUTEED GINGER, CHILI GARLIC SAUCE {CHILI PEPPERS, GARLIC, WATER, SALT, SUGAR, RICE VINEGAR, ACETIC ACID, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH), MALTODEXTRIN, SESAME OIL, SALT, SUGAR, CANOLA OIL, SOYBEANS, WATER, CORN STARCH, SPICE, WHEAT, NATURAL FLAVORING, BROWN SUGAR, GARLIC POWDER, CARAMEL COLOR, VINEGAR, YEAST EXTRACT), MODIFIED CORN STARCH, YEAST EXTRACT [YEAST EXTRACT, SALT], SALT, BUTTER FLAVOR [DEHYDRATED BUTTER, BUTTERMILK POWDER, NATURAL FLAVOR, MALTODEXTRIN, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH), SPICES), COOKED BATTERED WHITE MEAT CHICKEN (BONELESS SKINLESS CHICKEN BREAST WITH RIB MEAT, CORN STARCH, WATER, EGG WHITES, ENRICHED BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR (NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), SALT, BATTER [YELLOW CORN FLOUR, BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, SALT, LEAVENING (SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE), GUAR GUM, NONFAT MILK, SPICES, AND EGGS], SOYBEAN OIL, EGG, SPICE, CARAMEL COLOR, CAYENNE PEPPER, FRIED IN SOYBEAN OIL), ORANGE SAUCE (WATER, SUGAR, SOY SAUCE [WATER, WHEAT, SOYBEANS, SALT, LACTIC ACID, SODIUM BENZOATE {PRESERVATIVE}], ORANGE JUICE CONCENTRATE, APPLE CONCENTRATE, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, LEMON JUICE [WATER, LEMON JUICE CONCENTRATE), GINGER PUREE [GINGER, WATER, PHOSPHORIC ACID], HOISIN SAUCE (SUGAR, SOY PASTE {WATER, SOYBEAN, SALT, WHEAT FLOUR), RICE VINEGAR, SALTED GARLIC {GARLIC, SALT}, SESAME OIL, SALTED CHILI {CHILI PEPPERS, WATER, SALT}, SPICES], CRUSHED CHILI PEPPERS).,

The statement lists 17 ingredients at the top level, beginning with Fried Rice (cooked White Rice, Carrots, Yellow Carrots. 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 Oct 26, 2021), not the label on the shelf today.

Source: the ingredient statement Safeway, Inc. submitted to USDA (FoodData Central 2188302).

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