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Vegetable beef condensed soup

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0021130372119 · Canned foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0021130372119 · Serving size 0.5 cup (123 g)

The verdict

Vegetable beef condensed soup scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 23 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The 23-component label is layered, beginning with Dried Beef Stock, Rehydrated Potatoes, Carrots. Start with any flagged rows, then check the nutrition grade and serving size instead of treating one roll-up score as the whole decision. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.

95/100
Safe safety score
1
One flagged · of 23 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
C
Nutri-Score nutrition grade

Computed directly from OpenFoodFacts ingredient data cross-referenced with FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings. See our methodology for the scoring formula.

Composite profile score

One verdict from three independent sources

65/100

Grade B-

Ingredient Safety

95/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

C

Nutri-Score front-of-pack nutrition grade

Weighted 50% ingredient safety / 25% processing level / 25% nutrition grade. A dimension with no data for this product (common: source coverage is partial) is dropped and its weight redistributes across the remaining dimensions, so missing data never silently lowers the score. See the full benchmark table.

30372119 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Vegetable beef condensed soup label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 95/100 FLAG-ONE 1 flagged LEN-LAYERED 23 ing. REG-SPARSE 17% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-C Nutri-C RANK-MID Len top 33% LEAD-FLAG Caramel Coloring PHOTO-SOLO No peers BOOK-OFF …372119 · July 2026

4 of 23 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 30372119 · Open Food Facts · July 2026. The screening score and flag counts are in the verdict band above. This desk is the provenance stamp, not a second scorecard. Methodology

Screening model notes

How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record

Within the four-tier shelf-label framework this site publishes, the composite for this product falls in the highest band. That band is defined by a threshold on the derived score alone: it is where labels land once components carrying caution-or-worse registry ratings contribute little or nothing to the deduction. The band is a summary of what the screened registries return for the components that were parsed, so it inherits their coverage gaps — a component absent from both registries neither raises nor lowers the figure. The threshold and the weighting behind it are set out on the methodology page.

Nutri-Score settled on its middle grade here, the band the algorithm produces when the penalty and credit sides of its nutrient ledger come out close to balanced. A mid-scale grade is a statement about the panel as a whole rather than about any single nutrient, and products arrive at it by very different routes: a moderate profile across every term, or high marks on some offset by heavy penalties on others. The grade is computed separately from the ingredient screen below and the two are not comparable measures.

This label parsed into a long component list. Where many entries are screened at once, the composite tends to reflect the overall mix of registry ratings returned rather than the rating of any one entry. Longer declarations also carry more sub-listed and compound entries, where a parenthetical group is resolved into its parts, so the parsed count can exceed what a reader counts on the packaging.

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 15,626 products we've scored in the Meals category, the average safety score is 93.6/100. Vegetable beef condensed soup scores 1.4 points above that category average (95/100 vs. 93.6/100), so it is roughly typical for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.

Ingredient-list length vs other Canned foods products

Vegetable beef condensed soup lists 23 ingredients on its label

23 67th percentile a longer ingredient list than 67% of the 2,784 products we track

0–2: 2 products (0%). Below this entry. 2–4: 58 products (2%). Below this entry. 4–6: 123 products (4%). Below this entry. 6–8: 148 products (5%). Below this entry. 8–10: 226 products (8%). Below this entry. 10–12: 301 products (11%). Below this entry. 12–14: 233 products (8%). Below this entry. 14–16: 246 products (9%). Below this entry. 16–18: 182 products (7%). Below this entry. 18–20: 165 products (6%). Below this entry. 20–22: 133 products (5%). Below this entry. 22–24: 133 products (5%). This entry sits in this band. 24–26: 123 products (4%). Above this entry. 26–28: 116 products (4%). Above this entry. 28–30: 124 products (4%). Above this entry. 30–32: 78 products (3%). Above this entry. 32–34: 95 products (3%). Above this entry. 34–36: 65 products (2%). Above this entry. 36–38: 49 products (2%). Above this entry. 38–40: 61 products (2%). Above this entry. 40–42: 123 products (4%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Canned foods product, bucketed by value

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Distribution as text

2,784 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 23 (67th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
2 products (0%)
2–4
58 products (2%)
4–6
123 products (4%)
6–8
148 products (5%)
8–10
226 products (8%)
10–12
301 products (11%)
12–14
233 products (8%)
14–16
246 products (9%)
16–18
182 products (7%)
18–20
165 products (6%)
20–22
133 products (5%)
22–24
133 products (5%)
24–26
123 products (4%)
26–28
116 products (4%)
28–30
124 products (4%)
30–32
78 products (3%)
32–34
95 products (3%)
34–36
65 products (2%)
36–38
49 products (2%)
38–40
61 products (2%)
40 and above
123 products (4%)

Source Open Food Facts, product label ingredient lists · July 2026

Ingredient-list length is a descriptive property of the label, not a safety rating. A longer list is not automatically worse and a shorter one is not automatically better; the count is shown so the label can be placed against a comparable population. The comparison here runs against the 2,784 Canned foods products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.

Ingredient Safety Analysis

How the 95/100 score is built

Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 23 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

1
Dried Beef Stock
 2
Rehydrated Potatoes
 3
Carrots
 4
Organic Tomato Puree
 5
Water
 6
Tomato Paste
 7
Beef
 8
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
9
Sodium Acid Phosphates
 10
Peas
 11
Green Beans
 12
Barley
 13
Corn Starch
 14
Celery
 15
Organic Onions
 16
Msg
 17
Caramel Coloring
Coloring
Avoid Approved (color additive, GRAS)
18
Hydrolyzed Corn
 19
Soy And Wheat Protein
 20
Beef Fat
 21
Natural Flavor
 22
Citric Acid
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT, ANTIOXIDANT, ENZYME, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LEAVENING AGENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, SEQUESTRANT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT
Safe GRAS
23
Autolyzed yeast extract
Flavoring
Certain People Should Avoid

Full Ingredient List

Beef stock, rehydrated potatoes, carrots, tomato puree (water, tomato paste), beef (beef, salt, sodium acid phosphates), peas, green beans, barley, modified corn starch, celery, contains 2% or less of: salt, dehydrated onions, monosodium glutamate, caramel coloring, hydrolyzed corn, soy and wheat protein, beef fat, natural flavor, citric acid, autolyzed yeast extract.

Other products containing Sodium Acid Phosphates

Sodium Acid Phosphates is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 6 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.

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Categories

Canned foods Meals Soups Canned meals Canned soups

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from Vegetable beef condensed soup's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 23-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
  • Compare Vegetable beef condensed soup's 1 flagged ingredients with a product from the same score neighbourhood. Compare labels
  • Check how caution flags contribute to the derived screening score before drawing a dietary conclusion. Read the method

This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.

Barcode 0021130372119: product data from Open Food Facts (July 2026). Screening from FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine where attached. Figures are computed from those sources, not editor-typed. Methodology. Reference only, not dietary or medical advice.