Marie Callender's Country Fried Chicken Premium Breaded White Meat Chicken Patties, Home-style Country Gravy Pouches, Country Fried Chicken

Marie Callender's Retail Foods · Frozen Dinners & Entrees · barcode 00021131508425

What stands out

From the label
The ingredients list Partially hydrogenated oils, which has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA. Details

Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
Additives1 ingredient has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA. Which
TypicalFDA's tests of frozen dinners & entrees show what's typical. See levels

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2023-01-26). Recipes change, so check the package you have.

Rules that apply to more than one of these

Texas: Warning label required from 2027-01-01 Labels developed on or after January 1, 2027 must warn that the product contains an ingredient not recommended for consumption in Australia, Canada, the EU or the UK. (SB 25 (2025)) Source. Applies to all of them.
Louisiana: Warning label required from 2028-01-01 Products containing it must carry a QR code disclosure from January 1, 2028. (SB 14, Act 463 (2025)) Source. Applies to all of them.

Partially hydrogenated oils

US (FDA): Authorization revoked FDA determined in 2015 that they are no longer generally recognized as safe; makers had to remove them, with final compliance dates in 2018-2020. Labels on file may predate that. (80 FR 34650 (2015)) Source

Bleached flour

US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows bleached flour. Source

Typical for frozen dinners & entrees

FDA doesn't test this exact kind of food, so these are the closest foods it does test. Treat them as a rough guide.

Cadmium: typically 7.87 ppb (FDA, 9 samples, 2018-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1.9 kg (4.2 lb) a day; an adult at about 8.7 kg (19 lb).
One serving (6.2 oz, 177 g, from the label):
9% of a toddler's daily limit
2% of an adult's daily limit
Perchlorate: typically 2.67 ppb (FDA, 60 samples, 2008-2012). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 4 kg (8.8 lb) a day; an adult at about 19 kg (42 lb).
One serving (6.2 oz, 177 g, from the label):
4% of a toddler's daily limit
under 1% of an adult's daily limit
Lead, Mercury, Arsenic (total): usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.

FDA samples behind these numbers

Lead in Chicken potpie, frozen, heated: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Chili con carne with beans, canned: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 2.2, highest 6.6 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from boxed mix: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Chicken potpie, frozen, heated: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 6.63, highest 7.5 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Chili con carne with beans, canned: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 6.33, highest 7.3 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from boxed mix: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 11.1, highest 13 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Chicken potpie, frozen, heated: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Chili con carne with beans, canned: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from boxed mix: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Chicken potpie, frozen, heated: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Chili con carne with beans, canned: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 3.87, highest 5.3 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from boxed mix: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
Perchlorate in Chicken potpie, frozen, heated: found in 14 of 20 samples, average 1.97, highest 7 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in Chili con carne w/ beans, canned: found in 18 of 20 samples, average 2.39, highest 6 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from box mix: found in 19 of 20 samples, average 3.5, highest 5 ppb (2008-2012)

"Typically" is FDA's middle sample. Daily amounts use the long-run average and each chemical's daily limit (EPA reference dose, or FDA's level for lead) for a 33-lb toddler and a 154-lb adult. ppb = micrograms per kilogram of food. Source: FDA Total Diet Study.

Not tested

No published results for this product cover: Metals, Perchlorate, Phthalates (plastic softeners), Phthalate substitutes, Bisphenols. That means nobody has published a test, not that these are absent.

Ingredients (from the label)

PATTIES: BREADED WHITE MEAT CHICKEN PATTY (WHITE MEAT CHICKEN, BREADER [ BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, YELLOW CORN FLOUR, SALT, SPICES, LEAVENING (SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE], PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, SPICE EXTRACTIVE], WATER, BATTER [ WATER, YELLOW CORN FLOUR, CORN STARCH, SALT, SPICES, GUAR GUM, LEAVENING (SODIUM ACID, PYROPHOSPHATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE), GARLIC POWDER), TEXTURED SOY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, SODIUM TRIPOLYPHOSPHATE, POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, SEA SALT, FLAVORING, FRIED IN VEGETABLE OIL). GRAVY POUCH: GRAVY (WATER, NONFAT DRY MILK, SOYBEAN OIL, ENRICHED FLOUR [ BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], UNSALTED BUTTER [ PASTEURIZED CREAM, NATURAL FLAVORS], CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: MODIFIED CORN STARCH, SALT, CHICKEN BASE (ROASTED CHICKEN, SALT, HYDROLYZED WHEAT GLUTEN, FLAVORINGS [ CONTAINS HYDROLYZED CORN, SOY, WHEAT GLUTEN PROTEIN, YEAST EXTRACT, TORULA YEAST), SUGAR, MALTODEXTRIN, CHICKEN EXTRACT, CHICKEN FAT, CARROT POWDER, MUSHROOM POWDER, TURMERIC (COLOR), DISODIUM INOSINATE, DISODIUM GUANYLATE, XANTHAN GUM], ONION POWDER, YEAST EXTRACT, GARLIC POWDER, SPICES, CARAMEL COLOR, XANTHAN GUM).

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-01-26. Labels change; check the package.

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