Meatzza Snackers Chicken Fingers

Meatzza Snackers Chicken Fingers is a 250 g pack of frozen crumb-coated chicken fingers: boneless chicken (55%), water and refined palmolein oil, with a breadcrumb, predust and batter coating. The panel is printed per 100 g.

CleanPlate scores it [L]CB4. The C for nutrition is middling: 14.6 g protein per 100 g. The declared fibre and vitamin C figures are not credited because the ingredients cannot supply them. The B for ingredients reflects a mix of whole and refined ingredients (led by boneless chicken meat, refined palmolein oil and bread crumb), with additives that cost points: triphosphates, acetylated starch and methylcellulose. The [L] marks a declared value that the ingredients cannot support. The 4 for risk comes mainly from sodium (1230 mg per 100 g) and saturated fat (2.55 g per 100 g).

Boneless chicken meat (55%), water, refined palmolein oil, bread crumb, predust and batter (wheat flour, maize flour, maize starch, stabilizers 1420, 461 and 451(i), wheat gluten, salt, soy protein, spices and condiments, rising agent 500(ii)), iodised salt, spices and condiments, potato flakes, starch, soy protein and permitted natural colour (160c).

Per 100 g: 256 kcal, 13.3 g fat of which 2.55 g saturated, 0 g sugar of which 0 g added, 6.31 g fibre, 14.6 g protein, 1230 mg sodium. The declared fibre and vitamin C are more than 1.5 times what the ingredients can supply, so they are not credited in the nutrition grade, the label takes 2 points and the score is provisional (IMPLAUSIBLE). Atwater energy matches only if the fibre is counted. No allergen statement is printed although wheat and soy are listed.