Tegel Quick Cook Tempura Battered Chicken Nuggets 400g
Tegel Foods Limited · Fresh Chicken - Processed · barcode 09414735580507
What stands out
Nothing stands out: no published lab test names this product, no FDA recall lists its barcode and no ingredient on file is banned anywhere we track. Not tested is not the same as clean.
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- AdditivesNone of the additives we track appear in the ingredients.
- TypicalFDA's tests of fresh chicken - processed show what's typical. See levels
Typical for fresh chicken - processed
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Arsenic (total), Perchlorate: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
"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, Flour (Wheat, Maize), Vegetable Oil (Sunflower, Canola), Thickeners (1404, 415), Salt, Dextrose , Raising Agents (500, 541), Yeast Extract, Spice Extracts (160c, 100), Wheat Semolina, Wheat Gluten, Polenta, Egg Powder, Breadcrumb (Wheat Flour, Salt, Emulsifier), Spice, Mineral Salts (450, 451, 452), Maltodextrin (Maize)
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2022-05-23. Labels change; check the package.