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Special Chicken

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Ingredients · 19

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Common questions

Is Special Chicken healthy?

Special Chicken scores 10/100 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. 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 Special Chicken?

Special Chicken lists 19 ingredients, starting with Wheat Flour, Refined Palm Oil, Salt, Sodium Tripolyphosphate and Potassium Carbonate. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

Does Special Chicken contain seed oils?

No. Nothing in Special Chicken’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 Special Chicken?

Special Chicken is NOVA group 4: ultra-processed. That is the top of the scale and the classification the score penalises most heavily.

How does Special Chicken compare to other poultry?

At 10/100 Special Chicken scores worse than most poultry we have scored. A higher-scoring option in poultry is Jennie-O Ground Turkey at 100/100.

Is Special Chicken organic?

Yes. Special Chicken carries USDA Organic certification, which is worth +5 points in the score above.

Full methodology: how we score products.

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