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Michelina's

Chicken Fried Rice

EAvoid GoutMarket grade · Avoid · #27 of 38 frozen dinners and entrees we grade

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Purine and sugar, by the numbers

Serving1 package (227 g)
Purine per servingabout 84 mg, at most 226 mg (56% of the 400 mg daily guide)
Purine per 100 gat most 99 mg
Purine before GoutSafe's weightingat most 249 mg per serving
Main purine sourcecooked chicken breast
Fructose per serving1.5 g
Added sugar per serving0.9 g
Total sugar per serving3 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
cooked white chicken cooked chicken breast (C) 175 mg up to 50% 199 mg 199 mg
soy sauce soy sauce (shoyu) (A) 50 mg up to 33% 38 mg 23 mg
fried rice seasoning uncooked white rice (A) 33 mg up to 13% 9 mg 3 mg
toasted sesame oil tahini (A) 37 mg up to 2% 2 mg under 1 mg
peas green peas (A) 22 mg up to 20% 10 mg under 1 mg
cooked rice white rice (A) 6 mg up to 100% 13 mg under 1 mg
carrots carrots (A) 2 mg up to 25% 1 mg under 1 mg
red bell peppers red and green bell peppers (A) 1 mg up to 14% 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 E

  • About 84 mg of purine per serving, and at most 226 mg (56% of the 400 mg daily guide), mostly from chicken breast (cooked). Source on GoutSafe.
  • The Nutrition Facts panel lists 0.9 g of added sugar per serving, about half of it fructose. Source on GoutSafe.
  • Yeast extract is one of the most purine-dense ingredients there is, at 847 mg per 100 g dried. Source on GoutSafe.
  • The product contains alcohol, which GoutSafe scores as a trigger whatever the purine. 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: COOKED RICE, COOKED WHITE CHICKEN (CHICKEN BREAST WITH RIB MEAT, WATER, SOY PROTEIN ISOLATE, 2% OR LESS OF SALT, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, MALTODEXTRIN AND NATURAL FLAVOR), SOY SAUCE (WATER, SOYBEANS, WHEAT, SALT, ALCOHOL, VINEGAR, LACTIC ACID), CARROTS, PEAS, CANOLA OIL, RED BELL PEPPERS, FRIED RICE SEASONING (DEHYDRATED ONION & GARLIC, SOY SAUCE POWDER [SOY SAUCE {WHEAT, SOYBEANS, SALT}, MALTODEXTRIN, SALT], SUGAR, YEAST EXTRACT, RED MISO POWDER [RED MISO {FERMENTED SOYBEANS, SALT}], DRIED SHIITAKE MUSHROOM POWDER, XANTHAN GUM, SPICE, AND LESS THAN 2% SOYBEAN OIL), LESS THAN 2% OF TOASTED SESAME OIL, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, DISODIUM INOSINATE AND GUANYLATE.

Serving: 1 package (227 g). Added sugar: 0.9 g per serving. Label from USDA FoodData Central (record 2666981), dated 2023-11-16. UPC 717854305518. This label is over a year old and the recipe may have changed. Check the package.

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