Fully Cooked Chicken Wings Glazed with Hot Sauce

Why Does This Score Highly Processed?

In our analysis, Fully Cooked Chicken Wings Glazed with Hot Sauce scores Highly Processed. That classification is shaped by ingredients commonly associated with ultra-processed foods:

• Modified Starches (Modified Food Starch, Modified Corn Starch): Chemical modification is a hallmark of UPF.
• Other Additives (Sodium Phosphates): Miscellaneous additives generally indicate processing.
• Stabilizers & Gums (Cellulose Gum): Industrial stabilizers common in UPF.

Within Frozen Appetizers, this is among the less processed of the 4,714 products we've analyzed.

Processing classification reflects ingredient and additive analysis, not a judgment of any product's safety, quality, or healthfulness.

What These Ingredients Tell Us

We group Fully Cooked Chicken Wings Glazed with Hot Sauce's ingredients into ingredient categories and note how each relates to food processing. The notes below describe the category, not this specific product's formulation.

MineralsProcessing indicator

In this product: Potassium Chloride.

Added minerals often compensate for processing.

Vegetable OilsProcessing indicator

In this product: Rice Flour. Blanched In Vegetable Oil. Coated With: Hot Sauce (Fresh Red Ripe Peppers, Distilled Vinegar, Salt), Soybean Oil.

Natural oils are minimally processed, hydrogenated oils indicate UPF.