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Is Perdue Chicken Nuggets ultra-processed?

22 oz Chicken nuggets Sold in the United States

Pack of Perdue Chicken Nuggets

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

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

Whole foods combined with:

  • 15 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed breaded chicken

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 chicken breast with rib meat, water, rice flour, yellow corn flour, yellow corn meal, contains less than 2% of sea salt, corn starch, garlic, cane sugar, onion, raisin juice concentrate, honey, white pepper, black pepper, yeast extract

As written on the pack

organic boneless chicken breast with rib meat, water, organic rice flour, organic yellow corn flour, organic yellow corn meal, contains less than 2% of sea salt, organic corn starch, organic garlic powder, organic cane sugar, organic onion powder, raisin juice concentrate, organic honey, organic white pepper, organic black pepper, organic yeast extract,

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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

  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 53 chicken nuggets

From least to most processed, this one ranks 3rd. 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 0072745806568, last edited 1 May 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.