Tyson

White meat chicken nuggets

CModerate GoutMarket grade · Moderate · #13 of 24 frozen chicken nuggets and strips we grade

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Purine and sugar, by the numbers

Serving4 pieces (93 g)
Purine per servingabout 86 mg, at most 176 mg (44% of the 400 mg daily guide)
Purine per 100 gat most 189 mg
Purine before GoutSafe's weightingat most 176 mg per serving
Main purine sourcecooked chicken breast
Fructose per serving0 g
Added sugar per serving0 g
Total sugar per serving0 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
boneless chicken breast with rib meat cooked chicken breast (C) 175 mg up to 100% 163 mg 160 mg
dried yeast dried yeast (D) 847 mg up to 2% 16 mg 16 mg
wheat flour bread flour (A) 26 mg up to 50% 12 mg under 1 mg
oat fiber rolled oats (A) 44 mg up to 2% under 1 mg under 1 mg
wheat gluten bread flour (A) 26 mg up to 2% under 1 mg under 1 mg
wheat starch bread flour (A) 26 mg up to 2% under 1 mg under 1 mg
white whole wheat flour whole-grain wheat flour (A) 12 mg up to 2% under 1 mg under 1 mg
yellow corn flour corn (A) 12 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 classes it as ultra-processed (NOVA 4), and GoutSafe's rule keeps ultra-processed foods at Moderate (C) or below. Source on GoutSafe.
  • Its main ingredient, boneless chicken breast with rib 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 86 mg of purine per serving, and at most 176 mg (44% of the 400 mg daily guide), mostly from chicken breast (cooked). Source on GoutSafe.
  • The Nutrition Facts panel lists 0 g of added sugar per serving.

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: BONELESS CHICKEN BREAST WITH RIB MEAT, WHEAT FLOUR, WATER, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF THE FOLLOWING: BROWN SUGAR, CORN STARCH, DRIED GARLIC, DRIED ONION, DRIED YEAST, EXTRACTIVES OF PAPRIKA, NATURAL FLAVOR, OAT FIBER, SALT, SPICES, WHEAT GLUTEN, WHEAT STARCH, WHITE WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR, YELLOW CORN FLOUR. BREADING SET IN VEGETABLE OIL.

Serving: 4 pieces (93 g). Added sugar: 0 g per serving. Label from USDA FoodData Central (record 2617925), dated 2023-08-31. UPC 023700046345. This label is over a year old and the recipe may have changed. Check the package.

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