Nongshim, Nong Shim Co. Ltd. Nutri-Score E NOVA 4

Bowel noodle soup

Bowel noodle soup: 3.9/5 ingredient safety

Bowel noodle soup by Nongshim, Nong Shim Co. Ltd. has 12 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.9 out of 5, 0.22 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.

  • Safety score 0.22 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

Meals / Soups

How This Score Is Built

This 1-5 scale is an editorially-derived index, not an official government rating -- it synthesizes FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research. For Bowel noodle soup, 12 of its 12 tracked ingredients carry a scored rating so far, current as of 2026-09-07.

Data draws on Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records -- cross-check with the FDA → directly, or read how we score it.

Where Bowel noodle soup sits nationally

Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients

3.9 Top 81% higher than 19% of 58,710 scored products

Average ingredient safety score (1 = highest risk, 5 = safest), bucketed by value

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Source PlainIngredients ingredient safety index · 2026-09-07

3.9
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 3.9 out of 5
Based on 12 tracked ingredients
12
Tracked Ingredients
1
Concerning
11
Low Risk / Safe
E
Nutri-Score
1 ingredient flagged for safety concerns

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

4
NOVA Group 4
Ultra-processed foods

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.

Compare beyond brand

Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth

Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Bowel noodle soup: nearest mean mapped additive safety score and nearest mapped ingredient count among indexable products with at least 3 scored additives, excluding same-brand siblings. Scores describe regulatory and research signals on additives, not dietary advice.

Product Details

Barcode
0031146026128
Nutri-Score
Grade E
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Bowel noodle soup rank on ingredient safety?

Bowel noodle soup scores 3.9 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 81% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.22 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

How should Bowel noodle soup's 3.9/5 score be read?

PlainIngredients scores each ingredient 1 (highest risk) to 5 (safest) from FDA and EU regulatory status, then averages the scores of every ingredient this product lists that we could map. A 3.9/5 average places Bowel noodle soup in the Low Risk tier.

Every figure on PlainIngredients is rendered directly from FDA, EU, EFSA and U.S. state regulatory records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.