Kroger NOVA 4

Chicken bouillon cubes

Chicken bouillon cubes: 4/5 ingredient safety

Chicken bouillon cubes by Kroger has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

  • Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

How This Score Is Built

Chicken bouillon cubes draws on FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research, combined into a single editorially-derived 1-5 scale (never an official government rating). 2 of its 2 tracked ingredients are scored so far; data as of 2026-09-07.

Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records feed this score. The FDA site → has the primary record; our methodology page explains the scoring.

Where Chicken bouillon cubes sits nationally

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

4 Top 80% higher than 20% 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

4
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 4 out of 5
Based on 2 tracked ingredients
2
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
2
Low Risk / Safe
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Nutri-Score

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

ngredents: salt, sugar, corn syrup solids, hydrolyzed corn protein, monosodium glutamate soum cprbonate contains less than 2% of: silicon dioxide (anti-caking agent), chicken", natural andartea randrs, onon powder, chicken broth*, chicken fat, cooked chicken*, maltodextrin, garlic pomdelatile east extract veast extract, turmeric (color), disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, spice carane olr bicehed chicken fat, yeast from barley), soy sauce* (wheat, soybeans, salt), calcum phosphate tenorated contans wheat, soy. qua 800-53-4

Product Details

Brand
Kroger
Barcode
0011110837684
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Chicken bouillon cubes rank on ingredient safety?

With an average ingredient safety score of 4/5, Chicken bouillon cubes sits behind 80% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What does a 4/5 ingredient safety score mean?

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 4/5 average places Chicken bouillon cubes 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.