Hungry-man Popcorn Chicken With Spiced Rub BBQ Sauce

Pinnacle Foods Group LLC · Frozen Dinners & Entrees · barcode 00658276202286

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 2022-05-23). 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.
US (FDA): Allowed Source. Applies to Bleached flour, BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene).

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)

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 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 (14.1 oz, 401 g, from the label):
21% of a toddler's daily limit
5% 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 (14.1 oz, 401 g, from the label):
10% of a toddler's daily limit
2% 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)

COOKED POPCORN SHAPED BREADED WHITE MEAT CHICKEN PATTIES (COOKED WHITE MEAT CHICKEN, WATER, ENRICHED BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR (NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), LEAVENING (SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE), CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF DEXTROSE, SALT, MONOGLYCERIDES, YEAST, DOUGH CONDITIONERS (ASCORBIC ACID, L-CYSTEINE MONOHYDROCHLORIDE), SPICE EXTRACTIVE, ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR [NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID]), VEGETABLE OIL (PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL [TBHQ AND CITRIC ACID TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS]), CHICKEN SKINS, SOY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, SEASONING BLEND (GRANULATED ONION, GARLIC, SALT, SPICES, PAPRIKA), ISOLATED OAT PRODUCT, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, SALT, SPICE EXTRACT), MASHED POTATOES (WATER, DEHYDRATED POTATO FLAKES (POTATOES, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, CITRIC ACID), SEASONING SAUCE (VEGETABLE OIL (PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL [TBHQ AND CITRIC ACID TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS]), WATER, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES WITH BHT AND CITRIC ACID TO PROTECT FLAVOR, BETA CAROTENE FOR COLOR (CORN OIL, DL-ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL)), CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: SALT, DRIED DAIRY BLEND (WHEY, CALCIUM CASEINATE)), SPICED RUM BBQ SAUCE (HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, TOMATO PUREE (WATER, TOMATO PASTE), MOLASSES, DISTILLED VINEGAR, SPICED RUM, SEASONING (SALT, NATURAL FLAVORS, SPICES, DEHYDRATED GARLIC, DEHYDRATED ONION, CITRIC ACID, CARAMEL COLOR, MALTODEXTRIN, SUGAR), MODIFIED CORN STARCH, METHYLCELLULOSE, XANTHAN GUM, DRIED EGG YOLKS), GREEN BEANS, SEASONING SAUCE (WATER, SUGAR, SEASONING SAUCE (VEGETABLE OIL (PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL [TBHQ AND CITRIC ACID TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS]), WATER, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES WITH BHT AND CITRIC ACID TO PROTECT FLAVOR, BETA CAROTENE FOR COLOR (CORN OIL, DL-ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL)), SALT, VEGETABLE OIL (PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL [TBHQ AND CITRIC ACID TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS])). CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: SEASONING SAUCE (VEGETABLE OIL (PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL [TBHQ AND CITRIC ACID TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS]), WATER, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES WITH BHT AND CITRIC ACID TO PROTECT FLAVOR, BETA CAROTENE FOR COLOR (CORN OIL, DL-ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL)).

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2022-05-23. Labels change; check the package.

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