Safe

French Onion Locally Made Soup

by Kowalski's Markets

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0879147009104 · Kowalski's Markets · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0879147009104 · Serving size 1 cup (227 g)

The verdict

French Onion Locally Made Soup by Kowalski's Markets scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 26 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The 26-component label is layered, beginning with Organic Onions, Water, Beef Base. 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 26 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.

47009104 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

French Onion Locally Made Soup label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 95/100 FLAG-ONE 1 flagged LEN-LAYERED 26 ing. REG-PART 31% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-C Nutri-C RANK-LONG Len top 58% LEAD-FLAG Caramel Coloring PHOTO-FINISH General Tso's Chicken · ±0 BOOK-OFF …009104 · July 2026

8 of 26 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 47009104 · 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: General Tso's Chicken · Nearest score peer is General Tso's Chicken 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. French Onion Locally Made Soup: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. French Onion Locally Made…95/1002. General Tso's Chicken: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. General Tso's Chicken95/1003. Whiskey Maple BBQ: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Whiskey Maple BBQ95/1004. Balsamic drizzle: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Balsamic drizzle95/1005. Smoky Bbq Sauce: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Smoky Bbq Sauce95/100
High-band neighbours for French Onion Locally Made Soup (95/100) outside Kowalski's Markets.
Chart values as text

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

French Onion Locally Made Soup
95/100
General Tso's Chicken
95/100
Whiskey Maple BBQ
95/100
Balsamic drizzle
95/100
Smoky Bbq Sauce
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. French Onion Locally Made 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 Meals products

French Onion Locally Made Soup lists 26 ingredients on its label

26 42nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 42% 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%). This entry sits in this band. 28–30: 574 products (5%). Above this entry. 30–32: 517 products (5%). Above this entry. 32–34: 466 products (4%). Above this entry. 34–36: 451 products (4%). Above this entry. 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: 26 (42nd 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 26 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

Full Ingredient List

Onions, water, beef base (cooked beef [beef fat, beef stock, beef meat], sugar, salt, autolyzed yeast extract, natural flavor, potassium chloride, maltodextrin, soy sauce powder [fermented soybeans, salt], dehydrated onion powder, caramel color, citric acid, garlic powder, sunflower oil, silicon dioxide), butter (pasteurized cream, salt), brandy, modified foods starch, white sugar.

Other products containing Beef Meat

Beef Meat is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 10 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.

Categories

Meals Soups

High-score cross-brand comparables for French Onion Locally Made Soup

Neighbours outside Kowalski's Markets with screening scores in the same high band as French Onion Locally Made Soup (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Kowalski's Markets; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from French Onion Locally Made Soup's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 26-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
  • Compare French Onion Locally Made 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 0879147009104: 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.