Earth's Best
Chicken nuggets
- Main ingredient: chicken breast meat, rated like cooked chicken breast (C)GoutSafe ↗
- Purine: up to 106 mgGoutSafe ↗
- Added sugar: 1 gGoutSafe ↗
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Purine and sugar, by the numbers
| Serving | 4 nuggets (56 g) |
|---|---|
| Purine per serving | about 36 mg, at most 106 mg (26% of the 400 mg daily guide) |
| Purine per 100 g | at most 189 mg |
| Purine before GoutSafe's weighting | at most 106 mg per serving |
| Main purine source | cooked chicken breast |
| Fructose per serving | 0.5 g |
| Added sugar per serving | 1 g |
| Total sugar per serving | 1 g |
Where the purine comes from
| Ingredient | Matched GoutSafe food | Purine in that food, per 100 g | Share of the product | Purine at that share, per serving | Counted in the worst case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| chicken breast meat | cooked chicken breast (C) | 175 mg | up to 100% | 98 mg | 96 mg |
| yeast | dried yeast (D) | 847 mg | up to 2% | 9 mg | 9 mg |
| whole wheat flour | whole-grain wheat flour (A) | 12 mg | up to 33% | 2 mg | under 1 mg |
| whole wheat flour | whole-grain wheat flour (A) | 12 mg | up to 25% | 2 mg | under 1 mg |
| yellow corn flour | corn (A) | 12 mg | up to 13% | under 1 mg | under 1 mg |
| wheat flour | bread flour (A) | 26 mg | up to 20% | 3 mg | under 1 mg |
| rice starch | uncooked white rice (A) | 33 mg | up to 14% | 3 mg | under 1 mg |
| onion powders | onions (A) | 2 mg | up to 10% | 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
- Its main ingredient, chicken breast meat, which GoutSafe rates like cooked chicken breast, is graded C on GoutSafe, and a product never rates safer than its main ingredient. Source on GoutSafe.
- About 36 mg of purine per serving, and at most 106 mg (26% of the 400 mg daily guide), mostly from chicken breast (cooked). Source on GoutSafe.
- The Nutrition Facts panel lists 1 g of added sugar per serving, about half of it fructose. Source on GoutSafe.
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 MEAT, WATER, BREADING (WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR, CORN STARCH, CANE SUGAR, SEA SALT, GARLIC POWDER, LEAVENING [BAKING SODA, CREAM OF TARTAR], YEAST, ONION POWDER, SPICES, SUNFLOWER OIL), BATTER (WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR, YELLOW CORN FLOUR, SEA SALT, CORN STARCH, LEAVENING [BAKING SODA, CREAM OF TARTAR], GARLIC POWDER, CANE SUGAR, ONION POWDER, SPICE, SUNFLOWER OIL, EXTRACTIVES OF TURMERIC), PREDUST (WHEAT FLOUR, SUNFLOWER OIL), CANOLA OIL, RICE STARCH, CANE SUGAR, GARLIC AND ONION POWDERS, SA SALT, SPICE.
Serving: 4 nuggets (56 g). Added sugar: 1 g per serving. Label from USDA FoodData Central (record 2674972), dated 2023-11-16. UPC 023923206359. This label is over a year old and the recipe may have changed. Check the package.
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