Chicken Noodle, Ready To Serve Soup
Chicken Noodle, Ready To Serve Soup by Food Lion has 4 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.5 out of 5, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is B.
- Safety score 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Canned foods / Meals / Soups / Canned meals / Canned soups
How This Score Is Built
Chicken Noodle, Ready To Serve Soup 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). 4 of its 4 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 Noodle, Ready To Serve Soup sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.5 Top 29% higher than 71% 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
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
Chicken broth, carrots, cooked white meat chicken, enriched egg noodles (enriched wheat flour [wheat flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], egg whites, whole eggs), celery, contains 2% or less of salt, chickory root extract, xanthan gum, potassium chloride, hydrolyzed soy protein, isolated soy protein, chicken fat, yeast extract, natural flavor, onion powder, carrot puree, dextrose, sodium phosphate, sugar, autolyzed yeast extract, citric acid, corn syrup solids, maltodextrin, garlic powder, chives, dehydrated parsley, beta carotene (color).
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Chicken Noodle, Ready To Serve 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: 4.5/5.
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Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 4.
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Product Details
- Brand
- Food Lion
- Barcode
- 0035826084484
- Nutri-Score
- Grade B
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Chicken Noodle, Ready To Serve Soup above or below average on ingredient safety?
Chicken Noodle, Ready To Serve Soup scores 4.5 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, safer than 71% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 4.5/5 ingredient safety score mean?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Chicken Noodle, Ready To Serve Soup's mapped ingredients average out to 4.5/5, 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.