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Ben's Original Ready Rice Roasted Chicken Flavored with Carrots & Herbs

Ready Rice Roasted Chicken Flavored with Carrots & Herbs

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Contaminants · 7

1 at/over limit
From lab tests of this product’s family
Ben's Original Ready Rice seasoned long grain white pouches
This product wasn’t tested · results may differ

In the family’s tests: measured by an independent lab and compared against published safety limits.

Arsenic86.3 ppbof 10 ppb
Over the limit — 8.6×FDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.010 mg/L (= EPA MCL)
Measured in: Ready Rice Long Grain White Original, 8.8 oz Microwavable Pouch
Cadmium3.6 ppbof 5 ppb
72% of the limitFDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.005 mg/L
Measured in: Ready Rice Long Grain White Original, 8.8 oz Microwavable Pouch
Lead2.9 ppbof 5 ppb
58% of the limitFDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.005 mg/L
Measured in: Ready Rice Long Grain White Original, 8.8 oz Microwavable Pouch
Dimethylarsinic Acid22.2 ppbfound
Detected · no published limit
Measured in: Ready Rice Long Grain White Original, 8.8 oz Microwavable Pouch
Inorganic Arsenic65.6 ppbfound
Detected · no published limit
Measured in: Ready Rice Long Grain White Original, 8.8 oz Microwavable Pouch
Monomethylarsonic Acid1.44 ppbfound
Detected · no published limit
Measured in: Ready Rice Long Grain White Original, 8.8 oz Microwavable Pouch
MercuryNDof 2 ppb
Not detectedFDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.002 mg/L
Measured in: Ready Rice Long Grain White Original, 8.8 oz Microwavable Pouch

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Common questions

Is Ben's Original Ready Rice Roasted Chicken Flavored with Carrots & Herbs healthy?

Ben's Original Ready Rice Roasted Chicken Flavored with Carrots & Herbs scores 0/100 on Tallow — our avoid band. That number comes from what is on the label: the ingredients, how processed it is, and what it is packaged in, plus lab results from its product family, Ben's Original Ready Rice seasoned long grain white pouches. It is not a verdict on your diet — Tallow does not weigh calories, portion size or how often you eat it, so a high score means the ingredients are clean, not that the food is unlimited.

What is in Ben's Original Ready Rice Roasted Chicken Flavored with Carrots & Herbs?

Ben's Original Ready Rice Roasted Chicken Flavored with Carrots & Herbs lists 2 ingredients, starting with Water and Parboiled Long Grain Rice. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

Does Ben's Original Ready Rice Roasted Chicken Flavored with Carrots & Herbs contain seed oils?

No. Nothing in Ben's Original Ready Rice Roasted Chicken Flavored with Carrots & Herbs’s ingredient list matches a seed oil — canola, soybean, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, sunflower, safflower, rice bran or peanut oil, or an unspecified "vegetable oil".

How processed is Ben's Original Ready Rice Roasted Chicken Flavored with Carrots & Herbs?

Ben's Original Ready Rice Roasted Chicken Flavored with Carrots & Herbs is NOVA group 1: unprocessed or minimally processed. NOVA runs 1 to 4, where 1 is whole food and 4 is ultra-processed.

How does Ben's Original Ready Rice Roasted Chicken Flavored with Carrots & Herbs compare to other rice & grains?

At 0/100 Ben's Original Ready Rice Roasted Chicken Flavored with Carrots & Herbs scores worse than most rice & grains we have scored. A higher-scoring option in rice & grains is Simple Truth Organic Long Grain White Rice at 100/100.

Is Ben's Original Ready Rice Roasted Chicken Flavored with Carrots & Herbs organic?

Ben's Original Ready Rice Roasted Chicken Flavored with Carrots & Herbs is not certified organic in our data.

Has Ben's Original Ready Rice Roasted Chicken Flavored with Carrots & Herbs been lab tested?

Not this product itself. It shares a base recipe (Microwave pouch: water, parboiled long grain white rice, canola oil and seasoning; no pasta, beans or heavy vegetable) with the other products in its family, Ben's Original Ready Rice seasoned long grain white pouches, and 1 product in its family has been lab tested. This product is scored with the worst result for each contaminant across those tests. Those results are in the family's Contaminants section above; its own results may differ.

Does Ben's Original Ready Rice Roasted Chicken Flavored with Carrots & Herbs contain heavy metals?

Ben's Original Ready Rice Roasted Chicken Flavored with Carrots & Herbs itself has not been tested for heavy metals, but other products in its family, which share its base recipe, have: a lab detected arsenic at 86.3 ppb against a 10 ppb limit in Ready Rice Long Grain White Original, 8.8 oz Microwavable Pouch, cadmium at 3.6 ppb against a 5 ppb limit in Ready Rice Long Grain White Original, 8.8 oz Microwavable Pouch, inorganic arsenic at 65.6 ppb in Ready Rice Long Grain White Original, 8.8 oz Microwavable Pouch and lead at 2.9 ppb against a 5 ppb limit in Ready Rice Long Grain White Original, 8.8 oz Microwavable Pouch. This product is scored with the worst result for each contaminant across those tests. Its own results may differ.

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