Walmart is not selling lab grown chicken.
While the U.S. government did approve the sale of lab grown chicken in 2023, the lab grown chicken is not available yet at U.S. grocery stores including Walmart.
Lab grown chicken is only being served currently in a small number of exclusive restaurants in cities such as Washington D.C. and San Francisco.
It will likely take several years, yet before lab grown chicken becomes widely available in grocery stores as a result of challenges of large scale production, costs and other logistical issues.
All of Walmart's chicken including pre cut chicken to whole birds chicken is processed.
The processing of Walmart's chicken includes any step, which alters the chicken from it's original and natural state, like cutting, cleaning, and packaging it for sale.
And some Walmart chicken products are also sometimes injected with a solution of salt and other additives to increase the weight and the shelf life of the chicken.
Walmart's chicken goes through basic processing, which is the minimal processing that most people think of, like cutting a whole chicken into thighs, breasts and wings.
Some of Walmart's chicken, like Walmart's rotisserie chicken, is also injected with solutions that contain sugars, salt and other ingredients, which are absorbed into the chicken meat.
And some of Walmart's raw chicken is treated with interventions, like a chlorinated water wash, to help reduce bacteria.
And Walmart's ground turkey and ground chicken products are processed further to be ground down and are also treated with interventions to meet the food safety standards.
If you want Walmart chicken or other chicken that is minimally processed, look for the whole chickens, or simply cut parts of chicken without added solutions.
And be aware that even some seemingly raw chicken breasts have also been processed.
And if you want chicken with no additives, you should consider brands of chicken that advertise the no additives specifically, like some organic or free range options, however these kinds of chicken are often more expensive than other chicken.