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Progresso Toppers Loaded Potato Soup with Oyster Crackers

General Mills Sales Inc. · Prepared Soups · barcode 00041196110685

What stands out

  • From the label

    The ingredients list Titanium dioxide, which is banned or not approved in EU from 2022-08-07. Details

  • Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
  • RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
  • Additives1 ingredient is banned or unapproved somewhere. Which
  • TypicalFDA's tests of prepared soups show what's typical. See levels

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2023-06-29). Recipes change, so check the package you have.

Titanium dioxide (E171)

  • US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows it as a color additive, up to 1% of the food's weight. Source
  • EU: Removed from approved list from 2022-08-07 Removed as a food additive in 2022; food made under the old rules could be sold until August 7, 2022. (Regulation (EU) 2022/63) Source
  • Texas: Warning label required from 2027-01-01 Labels developed on or after January 1, 2027 must warn that the product contains an ingredient not recommended for consumption in Australia, Canada, the EU or the UK. (SB 25 (2025)) Source

Typical for prepared soups

What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.

FDA samples behind these numbers
  • Lead in Soup, chicken noodle, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Lead in Soup, clam chowder, New England, canned, ready to serve: found in 1 of 3, average 1.7, highest 5.1 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Lead in Soup, vegetable beef, canned, ready to serve: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Lead in Soup, vegetable, canned, ready to serve: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Cadmium in Soup, chicken noodle, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 3 of 3, average 2.63, highest 2.8 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Cadmium in Soup, clam chowder, New England, canned, ready to serve: found in 3 of 3, average 19, highest 24 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Cadmium in Soup, vegetable beef, canned, ready to serve: found in 3 of 3, average 10.3, highest 20 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Cadmium in Soup, vegetable, canned, ready to serve: found in 3 of 3, average 5.97, highest 9.3 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Mercury in Soup, chicken noodle, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Mercury in Soup, clam chowder, New England, canned, ready to serve: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Mercury in Soup, vegetable beef, canned, ready to serve: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Mercury in Soup, vegetable, canned, ready to serve: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Soup, chicken noodle, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Soup, clam chowder, New England, canned, ready to serve: found in 3 of 3, average 160, highest 210 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Soup, vegetable beef, canned, ready to serve: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Soup, vegetable, canned, ready to serve: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Perchlorate in Soup, chicken noodle, canned, cond, prepared w/ water: found in 10 of 20, average 0.77, highest 2.4 ppb (2008-2012)

Left out of the summary above: Perchlorate. FDA measured it in only some of these foods, so the result describes those foods, not the whole kind.

"Typically" is FDA's middle sample. Daily amounts use the long-run average and each chemical's daily limit (EPA reference dose, or FDA's level for lead) for a 33-lb toddler and a 154-lb adult. ppb = micrograms per kilogram of food. Source: FDA Total Diet Study.

Not tested

No published results for this product cover: Metals, Perchlorate, Phthalates (plastic softeners), Phthalate substitutes, Bisphenols. That means nobody has published a test, not that these are absent.

Ingredients (from the label)

Loaded Potato Soup: Chicken Broth, Potatoes, Celery, Onion, Modified Food Starch, Nonfat Milk. Contains less than 2% of: Cream Cheese (milk, cream, salt, carob bean gum, cultures), Cream, Bacon (cured with: water, salt, sodium phosphate, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite. may contain: sugar, smoke flavoring), Salt, Potassium Chloride, Natural Flavor, Titanium Dioxide (artificial Color), Cultured Cream, Canola Oil, Whey, Maltodextrin, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Yeast Extract, Tomato Extract, Corn Protein (hydrolyzed), Cheddar Cheese* (cultured milk, salt, enzymes), Dextrose, Nonfat Milk, Whey Protein Concentrate, Fermented Whey, Sugar, Chives, Sweetened Condensed Milk (sugar, milk), Sunflower Oil, Bacon Fat, Butter Oil, Sodium Phosphate, Spice, Blue Cheese (cultured milk, salt, enzymes), Color (annatto extract, turmeric extract), Oyster Crackers: Enriched Flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), High Oleic Canola Oil, Salt, Baking Soda, Monocalcium Phosphate, Extracts of Malted Barley and Corn, Soy Lecithin, Nonfat Milk, Yeast, Gum Arabic, Papain, Enzymes. Dried

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-06-29. Labels change; check the package.

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