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Banquet Original Seasoned Crispy Chicken, Original Seasoned Crispy

Conagra Frozen Foods · Frozen Poultry, Chicken & Turkey · barcode 00031000816070

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 poultry, chicken & turkey show what's typical. See levels

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2023-08-31). 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

BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene) (E321)

  • US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows it as a preservative. Source
  • EU: Allowed On the EU's list of approved additives as E321. For limited uses. (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) Source
  • Louisiana: Banned in school meals from 2028-2029 school year Banned in Louisiana school food from the 2028-2029 school year (concession stands and vending machines exempt). (SB 14, Act 463 (2025)) Source

Typical for frozen poultry, chicken & turkey

What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.

FDA samples behind these numbers
  • Lead in Chicken breast, oven-roasted, skin removed: found in 1 of 27 samples, average 0.27, highest 7.3 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Lead in Chicken nuggets, fast-food: found in 1 of 27 samples, average 0.16, highest 4.3 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Lead in Chicken thigh, oven-roasted, skin removed: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Lead in Turkey, ground, pan-cooked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in Chicken breast, oven-roasted, skin removed: found in 6 of 27 samples, average 0.37, highest 2.5 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in Chicken nuggets, fast-food: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 5.7, highest 8.3 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in Chicken thigh, oven-roasted, skin removed: found in 4 of 27 samples, average 0.21, highest 1.9 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in Turkey, ground, pan-cooked: found in 15 of 27 samples, average 0.85, highest 2.3 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in Chicken breast, oven-roasted, skin removed: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in Chicken nuggets, fast-food: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in Chicken thigh, oven-roasted, skin removed: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in Turkey, ground, pan-cooked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Chicken breast, oven-roasted, skin removed: found in 7 of 27 samples, average 1.11, highest 6.1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Chicken nuggets, fast-food: found in 4 of 27 samples, average 0.56, highest 4.8 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Chicken thigh, oven-roasted, skin removed: found in 3 of 27 samples, average 0.51, highest 5.8 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Turkey, ground, pan-cooked: found in 14 of 27 samples, average 5.54, highest 48 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Perchlorate in Chicken breast, oven-roasted (skin removed): found in 6 of 20 samples, average 0.85, highest 12 ppb (2008-2012)
  • Perchlorate in Chicken nuggets, fast-food: found in 13 of 20 samples, average 3.42, highest 12.5 ppb (2008-2012)
  • Perchlorate in Chicken thigh, oven-roasted (skin removed): found in 3 of 20 samples, average 0.85, highest 13 ppb (2008-2012)

Left out of the summary above: Perchlorate. FDA measured it in only some of these foods, so the result describes those foods, not the whole kind.

"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)

CHICKEN, WATER, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (ENRICHED WITH NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID, CALCIUM STEARATE, SILICON DIOXIDE), SALT, SOY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, FLAVOUR, SODIUM TRIPOLYPHOSPHATE, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, SPICES, FRIED IN PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL WITH BHT.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-08-31. Labels change; check the package.

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