Safe

Premium noodle soup

by Nongshim

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0031146035915 · Nongshim · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0031146035915 · Serving size 1 CONTAINER (75 g)

The verdict

Premium noodle soup by Nongshim scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 52 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 52-component record, beginning with Enriched Wheat Flour, Wheat Flour, Niacin. That density can include amounts and label fragments, so verify the physical label before relying on ingredient order or completeness. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.

100/100
Safe safety score
0
None flagged · of 52 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
E
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

58/100

Grade C

Ingredient Safety

100/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

E

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.

46035915 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Premium noodle soup label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 100/100 FLAG-CLEAN 0 flagged LEN-DENSE 52 ing. REG-PART 40% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-SHORT Len top 14% LEAD-RARE Disodium Succinate PHOTO-FINISH KIMCHI NOODLES · ±0 BOOK-OFF …035915 · July 2026

21 of 52 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Disodium Succinate). Source sheet 46035915 · 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 · Read with nearest score peer: KIMCHI NOODLES · Nearest score peer is KIMCHI NOODLES at the same screening score.

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 assigned its lowest band to this label. The algorithm reserves that grade for nutrition panels where the values it penalises sit well above the components it credits. The two systems on this page measure genuinely different things: a product can hold this grade while carrying no additive flagged by the registries screened below, and a product graded well can carry several. Neither reading substitutes for the other, and the per-component table is where the additive picture is set out.

The declared list is among the longer ones in this catalogue. A component set this wide means the screen returns many individual ratings, and the composite accumulates a large number of small contributions instead of turning on a handful of entries. At this length the per-component table below is substantially more informative than the single figure, because the figure compresses a great deal of variation into one number.

Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood

1. Premium noodle soup: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Premium noodle soup100/1002. KIMCHI NOODLES: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. KIMCHI NOODLES100/1003. Organic Green Pea Snack Crisps - Lightly Salted: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Organic Green Pea Snack C…100/1004. Harvest Snaps, Flavored Lentil Bean Crisp Baked, Tomato Basil: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Harvest Snaps, Flavored L…100/1005. Nu:Dle Soup: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Nu:Dle Soup100/100
High-band neighbours for Premium noodle soup (100/100) outside Nongshim.
Chart values as text

Unit: PlainFoodSafe screening score out of 100. Data current as of July 2026.

Premium noodle soup
100/100
KIMCHI NOODLES
100/100
Organic Green Pea Snack Crisps - Lightly Salted
100/100
Harvest Snaps, Flavored Lentil Bean Crisp Baked, Tomato Basil
100/100
Nu:Dle Soup
100/100

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. Premium noodle soup scores 6.4 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 93.6/100), so it is a comparatively strong pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.

Ingredient-list length vs other Meals products

Premium noodle soup lists 52 ingredients on its label

52 86th percentile a longer ingredient list than 86% of the 11,283 products we track

0–2: 12 products (0%). Below this entry. 2–4: 83 products (1%). Below this entry. 4–6: 127 products (1%). Below this entry. 6–8: 209 products (2%). Below this entry. 8–10: 312 products (3%). Below this entry. 10–12: 315 products (3%). Below this entry. 12–14: 412 products (4%). Below this entry. 14–16: 477 products (4%). Below this entry. 16–18: 542 products (5%). Below this entry. 18–20: 552 products (5%). Below this entry. 20–22: 545 products (5%). Below this entry. 22–24: 550 products (5%). Below this entry. 24–26: 552 products (5%). Below this entry. 26–28: 552 products (5%). Below this entry. 28–30: 574 products (5%). Below this entry. 30–32: 517 products (5%). Below this entry. 32–34: 466 products (4%). Below this entry. 34–36: 451 products (4%). Below this entry. 36–38: 443 products (4%). Below this entry. 38–40: 388 products (3%). Below this entry. 40–42: 3,204 products (28%). This entry sits in this band. This product 0 42 every published Meals product, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more products. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Distribution as text

11,283 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 52 (86th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
12 products (0%)
2–4
83 products (1%)
4–6
127 products (1%)
6–8
209 products (2%)
8–10
312 products (3%)
10–12
315 products (3%)
12–14
412 products (4%)
14–16
477 products (4%)
16–18
542 products (5%)
18–20
552 products (5%)
20–22
545 products (5%)
22–24
550 products (5%)
24–26
552 products (5%)
26–28
552 products (5%)
28–30
574 products (5%)
30–32
517 products (5%)
32–34
466 products (4%)
34–36
451 products (4%)
36–38
443 products (4%)
38–40
388 products (3%)
40 and above
3,204 products (28%)

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 11,283 Meals 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

1
Enriched Wheat Flour
2
Wheat Flour
3
Niacin
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
4
Reduced Iron
5
Thiamine Mononitrate
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
6
Riboflavin
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
7
Folic Acid
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
Approved
8
Potato Starch
FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
GRAS
9
Palm Oil
10
Rice Flour
11
Maltodextrin
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, HUMECTANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT, TEXTURIZER
Safe GRAS
12
Potato Starch
FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
GRAS
13
Beef Bone Extract
14
Salt
Flavoring
Cut Back
15
Anchovy Extract
16
Beef Extract
17
Beef Fat
18
Black Pepper
19
Caramel
COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE
GRAS
20
Color
21
Corn Syrup
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, DRYING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, HUMECTANT, LEAVENING AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, TEXTURIZER
Cut Back GRAS
22
Defatted Soy Flour
23
Dextrose
ANTICAKING AGENT OR FREE-FLOW AGENT, COLOR OR COLORING ADJUNCT, DRYING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, HUMECTANT, LUBRICANT OR RELEASE AGENT, NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
Cut Back GRAS
24
Disodium Guanylate
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
Approved
25
Disodium Inosinate
FLAVOR ENHANCER, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
Approved
26
Disodium Succinate
FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
Listed
27
Green Onion
28
Shiitake Mushrooms
29
Freeze Dried Red Chili Pepper
30
Red Chili Pepper
31
Freeze Dried White Button Mushrooms
32
Garlic
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
GRAS
33
Organic Ginger
34
Gum Arabic
35
Hydrolyzed Corn Protein
36
Hydrolyzed Soy Protein
37
Corn Starch
38
Tapioca Starch
NUTRITIVE SWEETENER, STABILIZER OR THICKENER
GRAS
39
Mushroom
40
Natural Flavors
41
Onion
42
Potassium Carbonate
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, LEAVENING AGENT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID
GRAS
43
Radish Extract
44
Sodium Carbonate
ANTIOXIDANT, CURING OR PICKLING AGENT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, PH CONTROL AGENT, PROCESSING AID
GRAS
45
Sodium Phosphates
46
Soybean Sprout Extract
47
Sugar
Sweetener
Cut Back
48
Tocopherols
ANTIOXIDANT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
GRAS
49
Antioxidant
50
Wheat Gluten
FIRMING AGENT, FLAVOR ENHANCER, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, SOLVENT OR VEHICLE, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, TEXTURIZER
GRAS
51
Yeast Extract
52
Yellow Corn Flour

Full Ingredient List

Enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), potato starch, palm oil, rice flour, maltodextrin, modified potato starch, beef bone extract*, salt, contains less than 2% of: anchovy extract*, beef extract*, beef fat*, black pepper*, caramel (color), corn syrup*, defatted soy flour, dextrose, disodium guanylate, disodium inosinate, disodium succinate, dried green onion, dried shiitake mushrooms, freeze dried red chili pepper (red chili pepper, dextrose, salt), freeze dried white button mushrooms, garlic*, ginger*, gum arabic, hydrolyzed corn protein, hydrolyzed soy protein, modified corn starch, modified tapioca starch, mushroom*, natural flavors, onion*, potassium carbonate, radish extract*, red chili pepper*, riboflavin (color), sodium carbonate, sodium phosphates, soybean sprout extract*, sugar, tocopherols (antioxidant), wheat gluten, yeast extract, yellow corn flour.

Categories

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High-score cross-brand comparables for Premium noodle soup

Neighbours outside Nongshim with screening scores in the same high band as Premium noodle soup (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Nongshim; these peers cross brands.

Read the longer label in layers

Read the longer label in layers

Premium noodle soup has a longer ingredient list than 86% of its Meals category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.

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

Barcode 0031146035915: 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.