Tyson Fully Cooked Crispy Chicken Strips, 25 oz — ENGINEERED

Name: Tyson Fully Cooked Crispy Chicken Strips, 25 oz
Brand: Tyson

Munch or Dump rates Tyson Fully Cooked Crispy Chicken Strips, 25 oz by Tyson ENGINEERED — score 30/90.

Underneath the coating this is genuine chicken breast with real protein, which is the one thing keeping it respectable. But the golden crust is a food-scientist's project: cocoa powder added only for color, yeast extract standing in for MSG, and three refined starches for crunch. It's convenient protein wearing an engineered breading.

Why this verdict

Real chicken breast is the first ingredient and delivers about 13g protein per serving — but it's wrapped in a formulated coating, not simply cooked.
Cocoa powder is added purely as a coloring agent, with paprika and annatto extracts further tinting the crust — engineering appearance, not flavor.
Yeast extract supplies free glutamate as a savory flavor enhancer, doing MSG's job under a cleaner-sounding name.
Three separate refined starches (rice flour, rice starch, tapioca starch) plus soybean oil build the crispy texture — a lab-tuned breading system.
Open Food Facts classifies it NOVA 4 (ultra-processed); only the whole-protein core keeps it out of full DUMP territory.

Ingredients (8)

Boneless skinless chicken breast with rib meat (safe) — Genuine whole-muscle poultry and the real source of the product's protein.
wheat flour (moderate) — Refined flour crust base; fast carbohydrate without the whole grain.
Cocoa powder (color) (caution) — Added solely as a coloring agent to deepen the crust's brown tone — cosmetic, not nutritional.
YEAST EXTRACT (moderate) — Another hidden glutamate source stacked with the MSG.
Soybean Oil (moderate) — Refined oil supplying the fat side of the hyper-palatable triad.
Rice flour, rice starch and tapioca starch (moderate) — Three refined starches stacked to engineer a crispy coating texture.
Paprika and annatto extracts (moderate) — Natural color extracts that tint the breading an orange-gold.
Salt (moderate) — Drives the salty-snack appeal, contributes to a high sodium load.