Kroger NOVA 4

Less Sodium Soy Sauce

Less Sodium Soy Sauce: 4/5 ingredient safety

Less Sodium Soy Sauce 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

Condiments / Sauces / Soy sauces

How This Score Is Built

PlainIngredients safety scores are a transparent, editorially-derived index synthesizing FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research into a single 1-5 scale, not an official government rating. 2 of 2 ingredients tracked for Less Sodium Soy Sauce have a scored rating so far. Data current as of 2026-09-07.

Sourced from Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records. Verify with the FDA → See our full scoring methodology.

Where Less Sodium Soy Sauce 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
1
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

SOY SAUCE (WATER, SALT, HYDROLYZED SOY PROTEIN, CORN SYRUP, LACTIC ACID, POTASSIUM SORBATE [PRESERVATIVE]), WATER, DEXTROSE, CARAMEL COLOR, SALT, LACTIC ACID, SOY

Product Details

Brand
Kroger
Barcode
0011110142184
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States
Stores
Kroger

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Frequently asked questions

Is Less Sodium Soy Sauce above or below average on ingredient safety?

Less Sodium Soy Sauce scores 4 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 80% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What's behind the 4/5 rating on Less Sodium Soy Sauce?

The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Less Sodium Soy Sauce's mapped ingredients average out to 4/5, 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.