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Sweet chick of mine

CModerate GoutMarket grade · Moderate · #5 of 24 frozen chicken nuggets and strips we grade

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Purine and sugar, by the numbers

Serving3 oz (84 g)
Purine per servingabout 64 mg, at most 147 mg (37% of the 400 mg daily guide)
Purine per 100 gat most 175 mg
Purine before GoutSafe's weightingat most 147 mg per serving
Main purine sourcecooked chicken breast
Fructose per serving0.5 g
Added sugar per servingnot on the label
Total sugar per serving1 g

Where the purine comes from

IngredientMatched GoutSafe foodPurine in that food, per 100 gShare of the productPurine at that share, per servingCounted in the worst case
chicken breast cooked chicken breast (C) 175 mg up to 100% 147 mg 147 mg
rice flour uncooked white rice (A) 33 mg up to 33% 9 mg under 1 mg
dried sweet potato potato (A) 7 mg up to 25% 1 mg under 1 mg
natural chicken broth chicken bone broth (B) 30 mg up to 2% under 1 mg under 1 mg

Purine values come from each matched food's page on GoutSafe. Shares come from label order: US labels list ingredients by weight, so the second ingredient is at most half the product, and anything after "2% or less" is at most 2%. The worst case fills the most purine-dense ingredients to their full share first, until the shares reach the whole product, then applies GoutSafe's weighting by source, which counts plant purines at 0.3, dairy at 0 and organ meat at 1.3 because they raise uric acid by different amounts. The grade uses that worst case. How we rate.

Why it's rated C

  • Open Food Facts has no processing class for it, but its label lists maltodextrin, an ingredient Open Food Facts treats as a marker of ultra-processing (NOVA 4), and GoutSafe's rule keeps ultra-processed foods at Moderate (C) or below. Source on GoutSafe.
  • Its main ingredient, cooked chicken breast, is graded C on GoutSafe, and a product never rates safer than its main ingredient. Source on GoutSafe.
  • About 64 mg of purine per serving, and at most 147 mg (37% of the 400 mg daily guide), mostly from chicken breast (cooked). Source on GoutSafe.
  • The panel lists 1 g of total sugars per serving and no added-sugar line.

Estimated from the ingredient label. Labels list ingredients by weight but rarely give amounts, so we grade on the most purine the label allows, which can read stricter than the real recipe and never safer. Sugar comes from the Nutrition Facts panel. How we rate.

What's on the label

Ingredients: CHICKEN BREAST, WATER, RICE FLOUR, DRIED SWEET POTATO. CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF THE FOLLOWING: SALT, NON-GMO CORN STARCH, LEAVENING (CREAM OF TARTAR, SODIUM BICARBONATE), TAPIOCA STARCH, NATURAL* CHICKEN BROTH, DRIED GARLIC, ONION POWDER, ORGANIC SAGE, NATURAL FLAVOR, MALTODEXTRIN, ORGANIC ROSEMARY, ORGANIC MARJORAM, DRIED PARSLEY, EXTRACTIVES OF PAPRIKA.

Serving: 3 oz (84 g). Label from USDA FoodData Central (record 2274936), dated 2022-05-23. UPC 854934007686. This label is over a year old and the recipe may have changed. Check the package.

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