Is Perdue Crispy Chicken Strips Breaded White Meat Chicken Strips ultra-processed?

26 oz Cooked poultries Sold in the United States

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Dextrose
Glucose

16 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score C

Less processed cooked poultries

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, contains 2% and less of salt, onion, garlic, breaded with (wheat flour), water, salt (processing marker), contains 2% and less of spices, garlic, paprika, spice, dextrose (ultra-processing marker), paprika, annatto

As written on the pack

Boneless skinless chicken breast with rib meat, water. contains 2% or less of salt, onion powder, garlic powder. breaded with: wheat flour, water, salt. contains 2% or less of spices, garlic powder, extractives of paprika, spice extractive, dextrose, paprika and annatto extracts.

What makes it ultra-processed

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.

Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.

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 91 cooked poultries

From least to most processed, this one ranks 47th. 77% of the cooked poultries 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 91 cooked poultries, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0072745804717, last edited 25 June 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.