Sweet Earth Butter Chicken Bowl

Name: Sweet Earth Butter Chicken Bowl
Brand: Sweet Earth

Plant-based frozen bowl of brown rice and meatless chicken pieces in a butter-chicken style sauce.

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Flagged ingredients2

Synthetic dyesNone listed
Corn syrupNone listed
Artificial sweetenersNone listed
Seed oilsCanola oil, Soybean oil
PreservativesNone listed

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

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Ingredient	Check	On the label as
Canola oil	Seed oils	CANOLA OIL
Soybean oil	Seed oils	SOYBEAN OIL

Ingredients as listed

COOKED BROWN RICE (WATER, BROWN RICE), PLANT BASED CHIK'N (WATER, SOY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE 1, CANOLA OIL 2, VINEGAR, NUTRITIONAL YEAST (NUTRITIONAL YEAST, VITAMIN B12), SEASONING (SALT, NATURAL FLAVORS, YEAST EXTRACT, CITRIC ACID, ROASTED ONION POWDER, ONION POWDER, CANE SUGAR), SALT, SOY LECITHIN 1, SOYBEAN OIL 1), ONIONS, TOMATO PUREE (WATER, TOMATO PASTE, CITRIC ACID), WATER, CARROTS, PEAS, COCONUT MILK (COCONUT, WATER, XANTHAN GUM, GUAR GUM), CHICKPEAS (WATER, CHICKPEAS, SALT), 2% OR LESS OF GARLIC, GINGER PUREE (GINGER, WATER, CITRIC ACID), CANOLA OIL 2, VEGETABLE BROTH (WATER, VEGETABLES [CARROT, CELERY, ONION, TOMATO], SALT, YEAST EXTRACT, CANE SUGAR, SOY SAUCE 1 [WATER, SOYBEANS 1, SALT, ALCOHOL], MALTODEXTRIN 1, YEAST EXTRACT, FOOD STARCH 1, VEGETABLE JUICE CONCENTRATE [CARROT, CELERY], ONION POWDER, GARLIC POWDER, SPICES, NATURAL FLAVOR), SPICES, CANE SUGAR, CORNSTARCH 1, PAPRIKA, YEAST EXTRACT, SALT, CUMIN, TURMERIC, NATURAL FLAVORS. 1 - NON-GMO, 2 - NON-GMO EXPELLER PRESSED

Source: the label filed with USDA’s branded food database (record 2724613). The maker’s page for it is here. Recipes change, and the pack you buy may print a newer list.

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Sweet Earth Butter Chicken Bowl

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Ingredients as listed

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