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Prepared Soups · barcode 00041196458947

Progresso Light Chicken Corn Chowder

General Mills Sales Inc.

  • 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 2020-02-27). 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)

"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)

CHICKEN BROTH, CORN, ONIONS, DRIED POTATOES, COOKED WHITE CHICKEN MEAT, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, CELERY. CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF: WATER, SALT, SOYBEAN OIL, CORN POWDER, COOKED BACON (CURED WITH: WATER, SALT, SUGAR, SODIUM NITRITE. MAY CONTAIN: NATURAL SMOKE FLAVORING, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM ERYTHORBATE, SODIUM ASCORBATE), CREAM, POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, MALTODEXTRIN, SUGAR, TITANIUM DIOXIDE, SOY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, BUTTER, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, ONION POWDER, GARLIC POWDER, TOMATO EXTRACT, CORN PROTEIN (HYDROLYZED), SOY PROTEIN ISOLATE, YEAST EXTRACT, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, SPICE, CORN STARCH, NATURAL FLAVOR, BACON FAT, SMOKE FLAVOR, EGG YOLK, DRIED VINEGAR, FLAVORING.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2020-02-27. Labels change; check the package.

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