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Is Dino Buddies Dinosaur Shaped Chicken Breast Nuggets Breaded Chicken Breast with rib meat ultra-processed?

5 lbs Chicken nuggets Sold in the United States

Pack of Dino Buddies Dinosaur Shaped Chicken Breast Nuggets Breaded Chicken Breast with rib meat

Yes, it's ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 31 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed chicken nuggets

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

boneless skinless chicken breast with rib meat, water, wheat flour, contains 2% and less of the following (yellow corn flour), salt, wheat gluten, spices, yeast extract, garlic, onion, paprika, paprika, natural flavor, leavening (cream of tartar, sodium bicarbonate), chicken broth, chicken fat, chicken flavor, vinegar, chicken stock, carrot powder, celery powder, onion, carrot juice, celery juice, canola oil, flaxseed, natural flavor, rosemary extract

Additives: E336 Potassium tartrates , E336i Monopotassium tartrate , E392 Extracts of rosemary , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

boneless skinless chicken breast with rib meat, water, wheat flour, contains 2% or less of the following: yellow corn flour, salt, wheat gluten, spices, yeast extract, garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, extractives of paprika, natural flavor, leavening (cream of tartar, sodium bicarbonate), chicken broth, chicken fat, chicken flavor, vinegar, chicken stock, carrot powder, celery powder, onion juice concentrate, carrot juice concentrate, celery juice concentrate, canola oil, flaxseed, natural flavor, rosemary extract

What makes it ultra-processed

Cosmetic additives

Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

Substances rarely used in home kitchens

Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
1 ingredient that would only make it processed

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 53 chicken nuggets

From least to most processed, this one ranks 25th. 87% of the chicken nuggets here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 53 chicken nuggets, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0064563227281, last edited 22 January 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
  • NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.