T.g.i. Friday's Sweet & Smoky Boneless Chicken Bites Chicken Breast Fritters With Rib Meat, With A Sweet Mesquite Flavor, Sweet & Smoky

Kraft Heinz Foods Company · Frozen Appetizers & Hors D'oeuvres · barcode 00046704068656

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 appetizers & hors d'oeuvres show what's typical. See levels

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2021-03-19). 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 appetizers & hors d'oeuvres

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 12.7 ppb (FDA, 57 samples, 2017-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1.1 kg (2.4 lb) a day; an adult at about 5.3 kg (12 lb).
One serving (3 oz, 84 g, from the label):
7% of a toddler's daily limit
2% of an adult's daily limit
Arsenic (total): typically 44.4 ppb (FDA, 57 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
Lead, Mercury: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.

FDA samples behind these numbers

Lead in Chicken nuggets, fast-food: found in 1 of 27 samples, average 0.16, highest 4.3 ppb (2017-2020)
Lead in Fish sticks or patty, frozen, oven-cooked: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 1.4, highest 4.2 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Pizza, cheese, fast-food: found in 2 of 27 samples, average 0.32, highest 4.6 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 Fish sticks or patty, frozen, oven-cooked: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 12, highest 13 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Pizza, cheese, fast-food: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 20.6, highest 25 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in Chicken nuggets, fast-food: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in Fish sticks or patty, frozen, oven-cooked: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 7.13, highest 9.8 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Pizza, cheese, fast-food: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 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 Fish sticks or patty, frozen, oven-cooked: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 757, highest 810 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Pizza, cheese, fast-food: found in 25 of 27 samples, average 3.74, highest 6 ppb (2017-2020)
Perchlorate in Chicken nuggets, fast-food: found in 13 of 20 samples, average 3.42, highest 12.5 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in Fish sticks or patty, frozen, oven-cooked: found in 18 of 20 samples, average 6.03, highest 51 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)

BONELESS SKINLESS CHICKEN BREAST WITH RIB MEAT, WATER, BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, WHEAT FLOUR, BROWN SUGAR, SUGAR, SOYBEAN OIL, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF: SOY SAUCE (WATER, WHEAT, SOYBEANS, SALT), DISTILLED VINEGAR, BOURBON SEASONING (SUGAR, BROWN SUGAR, SALT, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, NATURAL FLAVOR [MALTODEXTRIN, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, FLAVOR, CITRIC ACID, NATURAL TOCOPHEROL], ONION, GARLIC, BOURBON, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL), MOLASSES, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SALT, SPICES, YELLOW CORN FLOUR, SESAME SEEDS, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, DEXTROSE, CHICKEN BROTH POWDER (CHICKEN BROTH, SALT, FLAVORING), EGG WHITE SOLIDS, WHEAT GLUTEN, ONION POWDER, ANNATTO EXTRACT (COLOR), DRIED YEAST, PAPRIKA EXTRACT (COLOR), BOURBON TYPE FLAVOR (MALTODEXTRIN, SEASONING [SOY SAUCE (WHEAT, SOYBEANS), CREAM FLAVOR (ANHYDROUS MILK FAT, BUTTER OIL, CREAM AND BUTTER FAT)], AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, TAPIOCA MALTODEXTRIN, REFINER'S SYRUP, CULTURED WHEY, ONION POWDER, TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, ENZYME MODIFIED BUTTER AND BUTTERMILK POWDER (BUTTER [CREAM, SALT], DRY BUTTERMILK, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, ENZYMES), CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, HONEY POWDER, SALT, BUTTER (CREAM, SALT), WHEAT BRAN, POWDERED CHICKEN MEAT, WHEAT, NONFAT MILK SOLIDS, MOLASSES), TAMARIND, EXTRACTIVES OF PAPRIKA, GARLIC POWDER, LEAVENING (SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE), POLYSORBATE 80, SPICE EXTRACTIVES, WHEY SOLIDS, CARAMEL COLOR, CITRIC ACID, SMOKE FLAVOR, SODIUM BENZOATE (PRESERVATIVE).

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-03-19. Labels change; check the package.

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