Spicy Garlic Chicken & Bacon with Reduced Fat Cheddar Cheese & Hot Ones the Classic Garlic Fresno Hot Sauce in a Crispy Buttery Crust

How it compares with other frozen appetizers and hors d'oeuvres

Per 100 g, it has more sugar than 48% of the 4,401 frozen appetizers and hors d'oeuvres products in USDA's branded database, and it has more sodium than 14% of them.

Where the calories come from: 54% carbohydrate, 32% fat and 14% protein (4 calories a gram of protein or carbohydrate, 9 of fat).

Other crust in this aisle

148 of the 4,401 frozen appetizers and hors d'oeuvres products are named crust. Per 100 g their median is 239 calories, 425 mg of sodium and 8.3 g of protein; 24 have less sodium than this one.

What is in it

Ingredients (as submitted): ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), WATER, COOKED GRILLED WHITE MEAT CHICKEN STRIPS (WHITE MEAT CHICKEN, WATER, ISOLATED SOY PROTEIN, MODIFIED RICE STARCH, CHICKEN FLAVOR [DEHYDRATED CHICKEN BROTH, CHICKEN POWDER, NATURAL FLAVOR], SODIUM PHOSPHATE, SALT), REDUCED FAT CHEDDAR CHEESE (PASTEURIZED PART SKIM MILK, SKIM MILK, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH*, CULTURES, SALT, FLAVORS*, POTASSIUM SALT*, ANNATTO, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, ENZYMES, *INGREDIENTS NOT IN REGULAR CHEDDAR CHEESE), HOT SAUCE (FRESNO CHILE PEPPER, WATER, APPLE CIDER VINEGAR, GARLIC PUREE, VINEGAR, SALT, DRIED GARLIC, TURMERIC, BLACK PEPPER), BACON (CURED WITH WATER, SALT, 2% OR LESS OF SUGAR, SODIUM ERYTHORBATE, SODIUM NITRITE, POTASSIUM SALT, DEXTROSE, SMOKE FLAVORING, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, POTASSIUM LACTATE, SODIUM DIACETATE, FLAVORING), MARGARINE (PALM OIL, WATER, SOYBEAN OIL, SUGAR, MONO & DIGLYCERIDES, SOYBEAN LECITHIN, POTASSIUM SORBATE AND CITRIC ACID [PRESERVATIVES], ANNATTO AND TURMERIC COLOR, VITAMIN A PALMITATE ADDED), 2% OR LESS OF MALTODEXTRIN, FRACTIONATED PALM OIL, SUGAR, VEGETABLE OIL (SOYBEAN OIL AND/OR CANOLA OIL), SALT, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, WHEY, BUTTERMILK POWDER, CHILI POWDER (CHILI PEPPER, SPICES, SALT, GARLIC POWDER), DOUGH CONDITIONER BLEND (CALCIUM SULFATE, SALT, L-CYSTEINE HYDROCHLORIDE, GARLIC POWDER, TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE, ENZYMES [WHEAT]), CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, BLEACHED ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), BREAD CRUMBS (BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, YEAST, SUGAR, SALT), YEAST, SPICE, AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, TOMATO POWDER, CHEDDAR CHEESE (CULTURED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES), SODIUM DIACETATE, WHITE VINEGAR, ENZYME MODIFIED CHEDDAR CHEESE SOLIDS (MILK, CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), SODIUM CASEINATE, ANNATTO AND TURMERIC COLOR, NATURAL FLAVOR, PAPRIKA EXTRACT (COLOR), CITRIC ACID, CILANTRO, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, DRIED GARLIC, LACTIC ACID BLEND (LACTIC ACID, CALCIUM LACTATE), ACETIC ACID, CALCIUM HYDROXIDE, CALCIUM LACTATE, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, DRIED ONION, ENZYME MODIFIED MILK FAT, ENZYME MODIFIED NON-FAT MILK, LACTIC ACID, MEDIUM CHAIN TRIGLYCERIDES, SODIUM HYDROXIDE, METHYLCELLULOSE, SOY FLOUR, DRIED EGG WHITES.

The statement lists 50 ingredients at the top level, beginning with Enriched Flour (wheat Flour, Malted Barley 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 Oct 19, 2023), not the label on the shelf today.

Source: the ingredient statement Nestle USA Inc. submitted to USDA (FoodData Central 2679110).

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