Product Insight: Bowel noodle soup
Bowel noodle soup by Nongshim, Nong Shim Co. Ltd. is tracked in PlainIngredients with 12 identified ingredients and carries an overall safety rating of 3.9 out of 5 — a Low-Risk-to-Safe tier backed by FDA and EU regulatory status. On the NOVA processing scale, this product falls into Group 4 (Ultra-processed foods), a standard framework for classifying how heavily food has been industrially modified before reaching the shelf, and Its Nutri-Score grade is E, the European front-of-pack nutritional label summarizing calories, saturated fat, sodium, sugar, protein, fiber, and produce content. Within the identified ingredient list, 1 ingredient is currently flagged as Caution or High Risk and warrant individual review via the linked ingredient pages, while 11 ingredients sit at the Low-Risk or Safe end of the scale.
Our composite score weighs each ingredient's U.S. FDA regulatory status (GRAS, Approved, or Banned), European Union food-additive status under Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, any U.S. state-level restrictions, and signals drawn from peer-reviewed toxicology literature. The per-product score is the mean of the per-ingredient ratings and should be read as a structured summary rather than a clinical verdict; edge cases such as cumulative exposure, individual allergies, and dietary interactions are not captured by a single number and are better addressed by reading the individual ingredient pages linked below.
Sources: Open Food Facts (product + ingredient list, CC0 licensed) · FDA SAFFA · EU Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 · U.S. state food-safety statutes
- Sodium Phosphates — Safety score: 2/5
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
Ultra-processed products are formulations made mostly or entirely from substances derived from foods and additives. They typically contain ingredients not commonly used in home cooking.
Full Ingredients List
Enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), palm oil, potato starch, modified potato starch, salt, contains less than 2% of each of the following: beef extract*, beef fat*, beef stock*, caramel* (color), citric acid, clam extract*, corn syrup*, crab extract*, cuttlefish extract*, dehydrated green onion, disodium guanylate, disodium inosinate, disodium succinate, fish sauce* (corvina, cuttlefish, salt), freeze dried shrimp, garlic*, habanero chili pepper*, hydrolyzed corn gluten, hydrolyzed soy protein, japanese parsley*, lime juice concentrate*, maltodextrin, mushroom extract*, mussel extract*, natural flavors (shrimp), onion*, oyster extract*, potassium carbonate, red chili pepper*, riboflavin (color), rice*, sand lance concentrate*, sea squirt extract*, shrimp extract*, sodium carbonate, sodium phosphates, soybean paste*, sugar, tocopherols (antioxidant), tuna extract*, yeast extract, yellow corn flour.
Data Sources
- Open Food Facts — Product data and ingredient lists
- FDA Substances Added to Food (SAFFA) Inventory — Safety scores
- EU Food Additive Regulations (EC) No 1333/2008
Product Details
- Barcode
- 0031146026128
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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