Noodle soup, chicken
Noodle soup, chicken 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
Plant-based foods and beverages / Plant-based foods / Cereals and potatoes / Cereals and their products / Meals / Dried products / Pastas / Dried products to be rehydrated / Noodles / Soups / Instant noodles
How This Score Is Built
Noodle soup, chicken 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). 10 of its 10 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 Noodle soup, chicken 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, contains less than 2% of each of the following: artificial flavor, beef bone extract*, beef extract*, beef fat*, black pepper*, chicken bone extract*, chicken fat*, citric acid, corn syrup*,defatted soy flour, dehydrated vegetables (carrot, green onion), dextrose, disodium guanylate, disodium inosinate, disodium succinate, freeze dried corn, garlic*, ginger*, habanero chili pepper*, hydrolyzed soy protein, soy lecithin, lime juice concentrate*, maltodextrin, modified corn starch, natural flavors, onion*, potassium carbonate, red chili pepper*, riboflavin color, rice*, sand lance concentrate*, sodium carbonate, sodium phosphates, spices, sugar, textured soy protein (soy flour, soy oil, salt, autolyzed yeast extract, natural flavor), tocopherols (antioxidant), yeast extract, yellow corn flour.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Noodle soup, 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: 3.9/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 10.
Product Details
- Brand
- Nongshim
- Barcode
- 0031146030880
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Noodle soup, chicken rank on ingredient safety?
With an average ingredient safety score of 3.9/5, Noodle soup, chicken sits behind 81% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.22 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Noodle soup, chicken's 3.9/5 score be read?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Noodle soup, chicken's 3.9/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it 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.