Onion Soup
Onion Soup by Shoprite has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 2.5 out of 5, 1.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.
- Safety score 1.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
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How This Score Is Built
Onion 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). 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 Onion Soup sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
2.5 Top 98% higher than 2% 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
- Monosodium Glutamate - 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
ONIONS*, SALT, MALTODEXTRIN, CORNSTARCH, HYDROLYZED SOYA PROTEIN, ONION POWDER, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, CARAMEL COLOR, AUTOLYZED YEAST, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, DISODIUM INOSINATE AND DISODIUM GUANYLATE.
Product Details
- Brand
- Shoprite
- Barcode
- 0041190007745
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Onion Soup rank on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Onion Soup's 2.5/5 average puts it in the lower 98%, 1.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 2.5/5 rating on Onion Soup?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Onion Soup's mapped ingredients average out to 2.5/5, which is the Caution 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.