Smart Ones General Tso's Chicken, 9.0 Oz

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 36% of them.

Where the calories come from: 62% carbohydrate, 20% fat and 18% 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; 619 have less sodium than this one.

What is in it

Ingredients (as submitted): SAUCE (WATER, REDUCED SODIUM SOY SAUCE [WATER, WHEAT, SOYBEANS, SALT, ALCOHOL, VINEGAR, LACTIC ACID], SUGAR, GREEN ONIONS, MODIFIED CORNSTARCH, SALTED MIRIN WINE [SAKE (WATER, RICE, KOJI [ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE]), SUGAR, WATER, SALT, YEAST EXTRACT], SHERRY WINE [SHERRY WINE, SALT, SULFITES], GARLIC, SOYBEAN OIL, ROASTED SESAME OIL, GINGER PUREE [GINGER, WATER], SALTED CHILI PEPPER [CHILI PEPPERS, SALT], SESAME SEEDS, FLAVOR BASE [WATER, SALT, HYDROLYZED SOY AND CORN PROTEIN, SOY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, CORN OIL, ONION POWDER, AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, FLAVORING, SOY PROTEIN ISOLATE, SUGAR, GARLIC POWDER, TURMERIC], XANTHAN GUM, RED PEPPER, ONION JUICE CONCENTRATE, RICE VINEGAR), COOKED ENRICHED WHITE RICE (WATER, ENRICHED WHITE RICE [WHITE RICE, IRON, NIACIN, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, FOLIC ACID]), COOKED SESAME FLAVORED BREADED CHICKEN TENDERLOINS (CHICKEN TENDERLOINS, WATER, SESAME SEASONING [SALT, YEAST EXTRACT, SUGAR, DRIED SOY SAUCE (SOYBEANS, WHEAT, SALT), CHICKEN STOCK, MALTODEXTRIN, POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, SESAME OIL, ONION POWDER, GARLIC POWDER, GINGER, CHICKEN FAT, NATURAL FLAVOR], ISOLATED SOY PROTEIN WITH LESS THAN 2% SOY LECITHIN, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, SALT, ENRICHED BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR [WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], WATER, YELLOW CORN FLOUR, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, DEXTROSE, SALT, NATURAL FLAVOR [MALTODEXTRIN, NATURAL FLAVOR, SILICON DIOXIDE, AND LACTIC ACID], LEAVENING [SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE], DRIED GARLIC, YEAST, DRIED ONION, SOYBEAN OIL), BROCCOLI, RED BELL PEPPERS

The statement lists 5 ingredients at the top level, beginning with Sauce (water, Reduced Sodium Soy Sauce [water, Wheat. 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 1, 2023), not the label on the shelf today.

Source: the ingredient statement Kraft Heinz Foods Company submitted to USDA (FoodData Central 2562239).

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