Lean Cuisine

Chicken with peanut sauce

EAvoid GoutMarket grade · Avoid · #37 of 38 frozen dinners and entrees we grade

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Purine and sugar, by the numbers

Serving1 PACKAGE (255 g)
Purine per servingabout 125 mg, at most 447 mg (112% of the 400 mg daily guide)
Purine per 100 gat most 175 mg
Purine before GoutSafe's weightingat most 447 mg per serving
Main purine sourcecooked chicken breast
Fructose per serving5.5 g
Added sugar per serving6.9 g
Total sugar per serving11 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
sauce and cooked chicken: white meat chicken cooked chicken breast (C) 175 mg up to 100% 447 mg 447 mg
peanut butter peanut butter (A) 44 mg up to 25% 28 mg under 1 mg
soy sauce soy sauce (shoyu) (A) 50 mg up to 17% 21 mg under 1 mg
chili garlic sauce garlic (A) 17 mg up to 13% 5 mg under 1 mg
ginger puree ginger root (A) 2 mg up to 11% under 1 mg under 1 mg
chicken broth chicken bone broth (B) 30 mg up to 10% 8 mg under 1 mg
oat fiber rolled oats (A) 44 mg up to 7.7% 9 mg under 1 mg
rice starch uncooked white rice (A) 33 mg up to 7.1% 6 mg under 1 mg
chicken stock chicken bone broth (B) 30 mg up to 5.6% 4 mg under 1 mg
cooked pasta white pasta (A) 7 mg up to 5% under 1 mg under 1 mg
semolina whole-grain wheat flour (A) 12 mg up to 4.5% 1 mg under 1 mg
broccoli broccoli (A) 70 mg up to 4.3% 8 mg under 1 mg
red peppers red and green bell peppers (A) 1 mg up to 4.2% under 1 mg under 1 mg
carrots carrots (A) 2 mg up to 4% under 1 mg under 1 mg
edamame soybeans dried soybeans (A) 33 mg up to 3.8% 3 mg under 1 mg
wheat gluten bread flour (A) 26 mg up to 3.6% 2 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 E

  • About 125 mg of purine per serving, and at most 447 mg (112% of the 400 mg daily guide), mostly from chicken breast (cooked). Source on GoutSafe.
  • The Nutrition Facts panel lists 6.9 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: SAUCE AND COOKED CHICKEN: WHITE MEAT CHICKEN, WATER, SKIM MILK, PEANUT BUTTER (PEANUTS, PEANUT OIL, SUGAR, SALT), BROWN SUGAR, SOY SAUCE (WATER, WHEAT, SOYBEANS, SALT), CORN STARCH, CHILI GARLIC SAUCE (SALTED CHILI PEPPERS [CHILI PEPPERS, SALT], SUGAR, WATER, RICE VINEGAR, DRIED GARLIC, SALT, CORN STARCH), GINGER PUREE (GINGER, WATER, CITRIC ACID), CHICKEN BROTH, SALT, LIME JUICE CONCENTRATE, OAT FIBER, RICE STARCH, SUGAR, TAPIOCA STARCH, SEA SALT, CHICKEN STOCK, NATURAL FLAVOR. COOKED PASTA AND VEGETABLES: WATER, SEMOLINA, BROCCOLI, RED PEPPERS, CARROTS, EDAMAME SOYBEANS, SOYBEAN OIL, WHEAT GLUTEN.

Serving: 1 PACKAGE (255 g). Added sugar: 6.9 g per serving. Label from USDA FoodData Central (record 2087058), dated 2021-10-28. UPC 013800101549. This label is over a year old and the recipe may have changed. Check the package.

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