Chicken in a Biskit Original Baked Snack Crackers — DUMP
Munch or Dump rates Chicken in a Biskit Original Baked Snack Crackers by Nabisco DUMP — score 20/90.
A refined-flour cracker engineered for craving with a full MSG-plus-nucleotide flavor-enhancer stack, two sweeteners, refined oil, and hydrolyzed protein. The chicken is a sliver of flavor dust, not nutrition.
Why this verdict
- Full flavor-enhancer stack: MSG + disodium inosinate + disodium guanylate engineered to drive craving
- Refined enriched flour fried in refined soybean/canola oil with two added sweeteners (sugar + dextrose)
- Hydrolyzed corn and yeast protein piles on more lab-made savory intensity
- NOVA 4 ultra-processed; the 'chicken' is trace flavor dust, not real nutrition
- Empty refined carbs and salt with no fiber or whole-food value
Ingredients (14)
- unbleached enriched flour (moderate) — Refined wheat flour stripped of fiber and then fortified with synthetic vitamins; spikes blood sugar and offers little real nutrition.
- SOYBEAN AND/OR CANOLA OIL (moderate) — Refined industrial seed oil, high in omega-6 and used for frying; calorie-dense with no nutritional upside here.
- Sugar (concerning) — Added refined sugar, listed high - spikes blood sugar with no nutrition.
- Salt (moderate) — Added sodium for flavour.
- Dextrose (concerning) — A second added sugar (pure glucose) that hits the bloodstream even faster than sucrose.
- Monosodium glutamate (MSG) (moderate) — Flavor enhancer used to fake a meaty, savory depth.
- Soy Lecithin (safe) — Common emulsifier, generally benign in these amounts.
- ONION POWDER (safe) — Dried aromatic seasoning.
- Dehydrated Cooked Chicken (safe) — The namesake ingredient, present only as a trace flavor note far down the list, not a meaningful protein source.
- Hydrolyzed Corn and Yeast Protein (moderate) — A processed source of free glutamates layered on top of the MSG to deepen the savory hit.
- Spice Extractives (includes celery) (safe) — Concentrated spice flavoring in trace amounts.
- ascorbic acid (safe) — Vitamin C used as an antioxidant/dough aid; benign.
- DISODIUM INOSINATE (moderate) — Nucleotide flavor enhancer that works synergistically with MSG to multiply the savory craving effect.
- DISODIUM GUANYLATE (moderate) — Second nucleotide enhancer paired with inosinate and MSG; the hallmark of an engineered flavor stack.