Safe

spicy miso instant ramen soup

by Trader Joe's

Open Food Facts label for barcode 00684620 · Trader Joe's · Plant-based foods and beverages. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 00684620 · Serving size 1 container (50 g)

The verdict

spicy miso instant ramen soup by Trader Joe's scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 36 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 36-component record, beginning with Ramen Noodles, Unbleached Wheat Flour, Sea salt. 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 36 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
00684620
Barcode (UPC/EAN)

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

70/100

Grade B

Ingredient Safety

100/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

N/A

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.

00684620 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

spicy miso instant ramen soup label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 100/100 FLAG-CLEAN 0 flagged LEN-DENSE 36 ing. REG-SPARSE 14% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-UNK Nutri n/a RANK-SHORT Len top 4% LEAD-RARE Orange Peel PHOTO-FINISH Pizza Margherita · ±0 BOOK-OFF …684620 · July 2026

5 of 36 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Orange Peel). Source sheet 00684620 · 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: Pizza Margherita · Nearest score peer is Pizza Margherita 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.

No Nutri-Score grade is present for this record in the OpenFoodFacts snapshot this page is built from. The nutritional dimension is absent rather than assessed and withheld: the grade depends on a complete declared nutrition panel, and community-contributed records vary in how much of that panel they carry. Nothing about the missing grade implies anything either way about the panel itself. The screen below covers additive ratings only and does not depend on the nutrition figures.

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. spicy miso instant ramen soup: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. spicy miso instant ramen …100/1002. Pizza Margherita: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Pizza Margherita100/1003. Dark Chocolate Dubai Chocolate: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Dark Chocolate Dubai Choc…100/1004. Froot loops flavored nutritional drink: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Froot loops flavored nutr…100/1005. Freeze Dried Berry Medley: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Freeze Dried Berry Medley100/100
High-band neighbours for spicy miso instant ramen soup (100/100) outside Trader Joe's.
Chart values as text

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

spicy miso instant ramen soup
100/100
Pizza Margherita
100/100
Dark Chocolate Dubai Chocolate
100/100
Froot loops flavored nutritional drink
100/100
Freeze Dried Berry Medley
100/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 78,450 products we've scored in the Plant-based foods and beverages category, the average safety score is 97.7/100. spicy miso instant ramen soup scores 2.3 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 97.7/100), 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 Plant-based foods and beverages products

spicy miso instant ramen soup lists 36 ingredients on its label

36 96th percentile a longer ingredient list than 96% of the 63,434 products we track

0–2: 3,907 products (6%). Below this entry. 2–4: 7,921 products (12%). Below this entry. 4–6: 8,845 products (14%). Below this entry. 6–8: 7,032 products (11%). Below this entry. 8–10: 6,320 products (10%). Below this entry. 10–12: 4,190 products (7%). Below this entry. 12–14: 3,449 products (5%). Below this entry. 14–16: 3,051 products (5%). Below this entry. 16–18: 2,493 products (4%). Below this entry. 18–20: 2,053 products (3%). Below this entry. 20–22: 1,808 products (3%). Below this entry. 22–24: 1,758 products (3%). Below this entry. 24–26: 1,623 products (3%). Below this entry. 26–28: 1,606 products (3%). Below this entry. 28–30: 1,360 products (2%). Below this entry. 30–32: 1,198 products (2%). Below this entry. 32–34: 1,081 products (2%). Below this entry. 34–36: 901 products (1%). Below this entry. 36–38: 649 products (1%). This entry sits in this band. 38–40: 534 products (1%). Above this entry. 40–42: 1,655 products (3%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Plant-based foods and beverages product, bucketed by value

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Distribution as text

63,434 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 36 (96th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
3,907 products (6%)
2–4
7,921 products (12%)
4–6
8,845 products (14%)
6–8
7,032 products (11%)
8–10
6,320 products (10%)
10–12
4,190 products (7%)
12–14
3,449 products (5%)
14–16
3,051 products (5%)
16–18
2,493 products (4%)
18–20
2,053 products (3%)
20–22
1,808 products (3%)
22–24
1,758 products (3%)
24–26
1,623 products (3%)
26–28
1,606 products (3%)
28–30
1,360 products (2%)
30–32
1,198 products (2%)
32–34
1,081 products (2%)
34–36
901 products (1%)
36–38
649 products (1%)
38–40
534 products (1%)
40 and above
1,655 products (3%)

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 63,434 Plant-based foods and beverages products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.

Full Ingredient List

RAMEN NOODLES (UNBLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, SEA SALT, VITAL WHEAT GLUTEN), SEASONING PACKET (DRIED MISO [SOYBEANS, CULTURED RICE {RICE, ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE}, SALT], NATURAL FLAVORS, YEAST EXTRACT, SESAME FLOUR, POTATO STARCH, CHILI PEPPER, DRIED GARLIC, SALT, CANE SUGAR, SPICES, GREEN ONION, BLACK SESAME SEEDS, ORANGE PEEL, POPPY SEEDS, WHITE SESAME SEEDS, SHIITAKE MUSHROOM POWDER, BROWN SUGAR, DRIED ONION, CABBAGE POWDER, TOMATO POWDER, OLEORESIN PAPRIKA [COLOR], SOY SAUCE [SOYBEANS, SALT]), OIL PACKET (SUNFLOWER OIL, TOASTED SESAME OIL). CONTAINS SOY, WHEAT.

Other products containing Oil Packet

Oil Packet is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 4 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.

Categories

Plant-based foods and beverages Plant-based foods Meals Dried products Pastas Dried products to be rehydrated Noodles Soups

High-score cross-brand comparables for spicy miso instant ramen soup

Neighbours outside Trader Joe's with screening scores in the same high band as spicy miso instant ramen soup (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Trader Joe's; these peers cross brands.

Read the longer label in layers

Read the longer label in layers

spicy miso instant ramen soup has a longer ingredient list than 96% of its Plant-based foods and beverages 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 00684620: 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.