Lipton, cup-a-soup, instant soup, cream of chicken, cream of chicken
Lipton, cup-a-soup, instant soup, cream of chicken, cream of chicken by Lipton, Unilever has 4 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.8 out of 5, 0.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E.
- Safety score 0.32 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 Lipton, cup-a-soup, instant soup, cream of chicken, cream of chicken, 4 of its 4 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 Lipton, cup-a-soup, instant soup, cream of chicken, cream of chicken sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3.8 Top 84% higher than 16% 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
Maltodextrin, potato starch, creamer [coconut oil, corn syrup solids, sodium caseinate (milk), mono and diglycerides, disodium phosphate, silicon dioxide], salt, sugar, guar gum, high oleic sunflower oil, yeast extract, onion powder, hydrolyzed soy protein, chicken broth*, turmeric and paprika oleoresin (for color), parsley*, natural flavors (milk), chicken fat, spices, whey, nonfat milk*, caramel color, soy lecithin.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Lipton, cup-a-soup, instant soup, cream of chicken, cream of chicken: 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: 3.8/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 4.
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Product Details
- Brand
- Lipton, Unilever
- Barcode
- 0041000014857
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Lipton, cup-a-soup, instant soup, cream of chicken, cream of chicken above or below average on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Lipton, cup-a-soup, instant soup, cream of chicken, cream of chicken's 3.8/5 average puts it in the lower 84%, 0.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 3.8/5 rating on Lipton, cup-a-soup, instant soup, cream of chicken, cream of chicken?
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 3.8/5 average places Lipton, cup-a-soup, instant soup, cream of chicken, cream of chicken 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.