Bowl noodle soup
Bowl noodle soup by Nongshim has 10 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, 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
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 Bowl noodle soup, 10 of its 10 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 Bowl 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
- 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, hydrolyzed soy protein, contains less than 2% of: beef bone extract*, beef extract*, beef fat*, black pepper*, citric acid, corn syrup, defatted soy flour, dextrose, disodium guanylate, disodi!im inosinate disodium succinate, dried fish cake (pollock, bream, d-sorbitol, modified corn stårch, wheat flour, sucrose fatty acid esters, hydrolyzed soy protein, salt, sugar, paprika color, beta-caroten: color), dried vegetables (green onion, carrot), garlic*, ginger*, hydrolyzed corn protein, maltodextrin, modified tapioca starch, mushroom extract*, natural flavors, onion*, polyglycerol esters of fatty acids, potassium carbonate, radis extract*, red chili pepper*, riboflavin (color), rice*, sodium carbonate, sodium phosphates, soy lecithin, sugar, tocopherols (antioxidant), yeast extract, yellow corn flour. *powdered contains wheat, soy,
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Bowl 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.
Similar mean additive safety
Nearest products by average mapped safety score. This record: 3.9/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 10.
Product Details
- Brand
- Nongshim
- Barcode
- 0031146852086
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Bowl noodle soup rank on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Bowl noodle soup's 3.9/5 average puts it in the lower 81%, 0.22 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 3.9/5 rating on Bowl noodle soup?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Bowl noodle soup's mapped ingredients average out to 3.9/5, which is 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.