Foster Farms Chicken Nuggets

Name: Foster Farms Chicken Nuggets
Brand: Foster Farms

Parfried breaded chicken nuggets from a West Coast poultry company.

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Flagged ingredients2

Synthetic dyesNone listed
Corn syrupNone listed
Artificial sweetenersNone listed
Seed oilsSoybean oil, Vegetable oil (not named)
PreservativesNone listed

Fails 1 of 5 standards. Read from the ingredient list below; what each check counts.

What was flagged, and the words it was read from

Ingredient	Check	On the label as
Soybean oil	Seed oils	SOYBEAN OIL
Vegetable oil (not named)	Seed oils	VEGETABLE OIL

Ingredients as listed

Chicken breast with rib meat, wheat flour, water, food starch, contains 2% or less of soy protein isolate, salt, yellow corn flour, yeast, evaporated cane syrup, wheat gluten, soybean oil, natural flavor, spices, paprika extract, cream of tartar, annatto extract, sodium bicarbonate. Parfried in vegetable oil.

Source: Foster Poultry Farms’s product page, copied as published. Recipes change, and the pack you buy may print a newer list.

Same aisle, fewer flags

More chicken and fish first, then the rest of the frozen meals, pizza and nuggets aisle. Each passes all five checks.

Foster Farms Chicken Nuggets

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What was flagged, and the words it was read from

Ingredients as listed

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