Sweet & Sour Chicken with Vegetable Fried Rice

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 76% of them.

Where the calories come from: 66% carbohydrate, 21% fat and 13% 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; 752 have less sodium than this one.

What is in it

Ingredients (as submitted): COOKED RICE, WATER, BREADED CHICKEN BREAST CHUNKS WITH RIB MEAT (CHICKEN BREAST MEAT WITH RIB MEAT, WATER, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR [WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], BLEACHED ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR [WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], SALT, YELLOW CORN FLOUR, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, DEXTROSE, SOY FLOUR, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, LEAVENING [SODIUM BICARBONATE, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE], NONFAT DRY MILK, WHEAT GLUTEN, GARLIC POWDER, ONION POWDER, SPICES, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, EXTRACTIVES OF PAPRIKA, CARRAGEENAN), SUGAR, SOY SAUCE (WATER, SOYBEANS, WHEAT, SALT, ALCOHOL, VINEGAR, LACTIC ACID), PEAS, CARROTS, RED BELL PEPPERS, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF CANOLA OIL, VINEGAR, TOMATO PASTE, FRIED RICE SEASONING (DEHYDRATED ONION & GARLIC, SOY SAUCE POWDER [SOY SAUCE {WHEAT, SOYBEANS, SALT}, MALTODEXTRIN, SALT], SUGAR, YEAST EXTRACT, RED MISO POWDER [RED MISO {FERMENTED SOYBEANS, SALT}], DRIED SHIITAKE MUSHROOM POWDER, XANTHAN GUM, SPICE, AND LESS THAN 2% SOYBEAN OIL), PINEAPPLE JUICE CONCENTRATE, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, CHICKEN STOCK, TOASTED SESAME OIL, ORANGE JUICE CONCENTRATE, SALT, GINGER, GRANULATED GARLIC, CITRIC ACID, CHICKEN FAT, OLEORESIN PAPRIKA (EXTRACTIVES OF PAPRIKA AND NATURAL FLAVORS), XANTHAN GUM, SPICE.

The statement lists 25 ingredients at the top level, beginning with Cooked Rice, Water, Breaded Chicken Breast Chunks with Rib Meat (chicken Breast Meat with Rib Meat. 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 12, 2023), not the label on the shelf today.

Source: the ingredient statement Overhill Farms, Inc. submitted to USDA (FoodData Central 2667220).

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