Hy-vee Spicy Orange Chicken, Spicy Orange

Other Deli · barcode 00075450283396

What stands out

From the label
The ingredients list Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), which has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: West Virginia ban from 2028; EU warning label. Details

Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
Additives1 ingredient has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: West Virginia ban from 2028; EU warning label. Which
TypicalFDA's tests of other deli show what's typical. See levels

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2023-10-26). 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 Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Bleached flour.
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. Applies to Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Sucralose.
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.
US (FDA): Allowed Source. Applies to Bleached flour, Sucralose.

Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine) (E102)

US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows Yellow No. 5 as a certified color additive. Source
EU: Allowed with warning label Allowed as E102, but foods containing it must say it "may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children." (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, Annex V) Source
California: Banned in school meals from 2027-12-31 Banned in food and drinks offered in California public schools from December 31, 2027. (AB 2316 (2024)) Source
West Virginia: Banned from 2028-01-01 Food containing it is treated as adulterated in West Virginia from January 1, 2028. (HB 2354 (2025)) Source
West Virginia: Banned in school meals from 2025-08-01 Banned in West Virginia school meals since August 1, 2025. (HB 2354 (2025)) Source

Sucralose (E955)

EU: Allowed On the EU's list of approved additives as E955. (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) Source

Typical for other deli

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 0.583 ppb (FDA, 36 samples, 2017-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 13 kg (29 lb) a day; an adult at about 59 kg (130 lb).
One serving (1 cup, 208 g, from the label):
2% 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 Luncheon meat, bologna: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Luncheon meat, ham: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Luncheon meat, turkey: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 1.4, highest 4.2 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Salami, dry/hard: found in 1 of 27 samples, average 0.18, highest 4.9 ppb (2017-2020)
Cadmium in Luncheon meat, bologna: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 2.4, highest 4.4 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Luncheon meat, ham: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 3.2, highest 5.3 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Luncheon meat, turkey: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 3.87, highest 6 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Salami, dry/hard: found in 10 of 27 samples, average 0.54, highest 2.4 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in Luncheon meat, bologna: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Luncheon meat, ham: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Luncheon meat, turkey: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Salami, dry/hard: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Luncheon meat, bologna: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Luncheon meat, ham: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 4.03, highest 5.5 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Luncheon meat, turkey: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 7.83, highest 9 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Salami, dry/hard: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
Perchlorate in Bologna (beef/pork): found in 15 of 20 samples, average 112, highest 1,557 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in Luncheon meat (ham): found in 18 of 20 samples, average 20.6, highest 56.4 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)

BATTERED CHICKEN THIGHS (CONTAINING: UP TO 25% OF A SOLUTION OF WATER, SOYBEAN OIL, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SALT, GARLIC POWDER, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, SPICE [SALT, EXTRACTIVE OF BLACK PEPPER], BATTERED WITH: WATER, BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, MODIFIED COM AND WHEAT STARCH, PALM OIL, SALT, GARLIC POWDER, ONION POWDER. PREDUSTED WITH: COM STARCH, WHEAT FLOUR, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, YELLOW COM FLOUR, SALT, DEXTROSE, LEAVENING [SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE], BREADING SET IN VEGETABLE OIL), WATER, LONG GRAIN RICE, GENERAL SAUCE (HIGH FRUCTOSE COM SYRUP, WATER, SUGAR, VINEGAR, SOY SAUCE (WATER, WHEAT, SOYBEANS, SALT), TOMATO PASTE, SALT, MODIFIED COM STARCH, CARAMEL COLOR, SPICES, MISO (WATER, SOYBEANS, RICE, SALT, ALCOHOL), CITRIC ACID, PLUM PUREE, DEHYDRATED GARLIC, CHICKEN BOUILLON POWDER (SALT, SUGAR, MALTODEXTRIN, COOKED CHICKEN [CHICKEN SKIN, COOKED CHICKEN, CHICKEN BROTH, SALT], HYDROLYZED COM PROTEIN, NATURAL CHICKEN FLAVORS [AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, CHICKEN MEAT], CHICKEN FAT, DEHYDRATED ONION AND GARLIC, COM STARCH, AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, SOY LECITHIN, HYDROLYZED SOY PROTEIN, TURMERIC, CARAMEL COLOR, DISODIUM INOSINATE, DISODIUM GUANYLATE), SUCRALOSE, DISODIUM INOSINATE, DISODIUM GUANYLATE), SUGAR, SESAME SAUCE (SUGAR, WATER, WHITE DISTILLED VINEGAR, SOY SAUCE [WATER, WHEAT, SOYBEANS, SALT], SODIUM BENZOATE ADDED AS A PRESERVATIVE), SOY SAUCE (WATER, SALT, SOYBEANS, SUGAR, WHEAT FLOUR, SODIUM BENZOATE [PRESERVATIVE], DISODIUM 5'-INOSINATE & DISODIUM 5'-GUANYLATE [FLAVOR ENHANCERS]), EGGS (WHOLE EGGS, NONFAT MILK, SALT, DEXTROSE, XANTHAN GUM, CITRIC ACID, AND ANNATO EXTRACT), CONCENTRATED ORANGE JUICE, ORANGE JUICE, DISTILLED WHITE VINEGAR, FLAVOR ENHANCER (MALTODEXTRIN, SODIUM CHLORIDE, DISODIUM INOSINATE AND DISODIUM GUANYLATE, THIAMINE HYDROCHLORIDE, CITRIC ACID AND SILICON DIOXIDE [TO PREVENT CAKING]), MUSHROOM SOY SAUCE (SOY SAUCE [WATER, SALT, SOYBEANS, WHEAT FLOUR], CARAMEL COLOR, SUGAR, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL MUSHROOM FLAVOR [NATURAL FLAVORING, ARTIFICIAL FLAVORING, SALT, DISODIUM 5'-INOSINATE AND DISODUM 5'-GUANYLATE], DISODIUM 5'-INOSINATE AND DISODUM 5'-GUANYLATE AS FLAVOR ENHANCERS, SODIUM BENZOATE ADDED AS A PRESERVATIVE), DEHYDRATED GARLIC, RED CHILI PEPPER, XANTHAN GUM, SALT, CHICKEN BOUILLON (SALT, MALTODEXTRIN, HYDROLYZED COM SOY PROTEIN, RENDERED CHICKEN FAT, CHICKEN BROTH, ONION AND GARLIC POWDER, DISODIUM INOSINATE AND DISODIUM GUANYLATE, DEHYDRATED COOKED CHICKEN, COM STARCH, SILICON DIOXIDE [ANTI-CAKING], TURMERIC[COLOR]), CANOLA OIL, GUAR GUM, DRIED CHILI PEPPERS, FOOD COLOR (WATER, YELLOW 5 AND 6, CITRIC ACID AND SODIUM BENZOATE [PRESERVATIVES]).

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-10-26. Labels change; check the package.

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