Safe

Campbell's Chunky Soup Beef/Ctry Veg

by Cambells

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0051000148780 · Cambells · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0051000148780 · Serving size 1 container (432 g)

The verdict

Campbell's Chunky Soup Beef/Ctry Veg by Cambells scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 34 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 34-component record, beginning with Dried Beef Stock, Water, Carrots. 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.

95/100
Safe safety score
1
One flagged · of 34 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.

00148780 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Campbell's Chunky Soup Beef/Ctry Veg label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 95/100 FLAG-ONE 1 flagged LEN-DENSE 34 ing. REG-SPARSE 18% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-C Nutri-C RANK-MID Len top 40% LEAD-FLAG Caramel Coloring PHOTO-FINISH Campbell's chunky sirloin · ±0 BOOK-OFF …148780 · July 2026

6 of 34 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 00148780 · 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: Campbell's chunky sirloin burger · Nearest score peer is Campbell's chunky sirloin burger 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 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.

Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood

1. Campbell's Chunky Soup Beef/Ctry Veg: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Campbell's Chunky Soup Be…95/1002. Campbell's chunky sirloin burger: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Campbell's chunky sirloin…95/1003. Slow Roasted Beef With Mushrooms Soup, Slow Roasted Beef With Mushrooms: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Slow Roasted Beef With Mu…95/1004. Savory Pot Roast: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Savory Pot Roast95/1005. Old Fashioned Vegetable Beef Soup, Old Fashioned Vegetable Beef: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Old Fashioned Vegetable B…95/100
High-band neighbours for Campbell's Chunky Soup Beef/Ctry Veg (95/100) outside Cambells.
Chart values as text

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

Campbell's Chunky Soup Beef/Ctry Veg
95/100
Campbell's chunky sirloin burger
95/100
Slow Roasted Beef With Mushrooms Soup, Slow Roasted Beef With Mushrooms
95/100
Savory Pot Roast
95/100
Old Fashioned Vegetable Beef Soup, Old Fashioned Vegetable Beef
95/100

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. Campbell's Chunky Soup Beef/Ctry Veg 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 Meals products

Campbell's Chunky Soup Beef/Ctry Veg lists 34 ingredients on its label

34 60th percentile a longer ingredient list than 60% 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%). This entry sits in this band. 36–38: 443 products (4%). Above this entry. 38–40: 388 products (3%). Above this entry. 40–42: 3,204 products (28%). Above this entry. 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: 34 (60th 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

How the 95/100 score is built

Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 34 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

Full Ingredient List

Beef stock, water, carrots, potatoes, seasoned beef - beef broth and modified cornstarch product (beef, beef broth, salt, modified cornstarch, sodium phosphate, spice), tomato puree (water, tomato paste), contains less than 2% of: modified food starch, celery, peas, vegetable oil, wheat flour, salt, natural flavoring, soy sauce (wheat, soybeans, salt, maltodextrin), hydrolyzed wheat gluten, yeast extract, caramel color, beef extract, spice, beef tallow, sesame seed oil, glutamic acid, xanthan gum, garlic extract, soy lecithin, onion extract.

Categories

Meals Soups

High-score cross-brand comparables for Campbell's Chunky Soup Beef/Ctry Veg

Neighbours outside Cambells with screening scores in the same high band as Campbell's Chunky Soup Beef/Ctry Veg (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Cambells; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from Campbell's Chunky Soup Beef/Ctry Veg's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 34-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
  • Compare Campbell's Chunky Soup Beef/Ctry Veg'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 0051000148780: 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.