Weis Quality Cream Of Potato Condensed Soup, Cream Of Potato
Weis Markets, Inc. · Canned Condensed Soup · barcode 00041497327522
What stands out
- From the label
The ingredients list Partially hydrogenated oils, which has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA. Details
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- Additives1 ingredient has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of canned condensed soup show what's typical. See levels
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2021-10-28). Recipes change, so check the package you have.
Partially hydrogenated oils
- US (FDA): Authorization revoked FDA determined in 2015 that they are no longer generally recognized as safe; makers had to remove them, with final compliance dates in 2018-2020. Labels on file may predate that. (80 FR 34650 (2015)) 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
- Louisiana: Warning label required from 2028-01-01 Products containing it must carry a QR code disclosure from January 1, 2028. (SB 14, Act 463 (2025)) Source
Typical for canned condensed soup
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Cadmium: typically 3 ppb (FDA, 12 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 4.9 L (20½ cups) a day; an adult at about 23 L (95¾ cups).One serving (1/2 cup, 125 g, from the label):3% of a toddler's daily limitunder 1% of an adult's daily limit
- Lead, Mercury, Arsenic (total): usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Soup, broccoli cheese, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Soup, chicken noodle, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Soup, cream of mushroom, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Soup, tomato, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Soup, broccoli cheese, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 2 of 3 samples, average 0.83, highest 1.3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Soup, chicken noodle, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 2.63, highest 2.8 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Soup, cream of mushroom, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 0.33, highest 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Soup, tomato, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 8.5, highest 10 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Soup, broccoli cheese, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Soup, chicken noodle, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Soup, cream of mushroom, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Soup, tomato, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Soup, broccoli cheese, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Soup, chicken noodle, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Soup, cream of mushroom, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Soup, tomato, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Soup, chicken noodle, canned, cond, prepared w/ water: found in 10 of 20 samples, average 0.77, highest 2.4 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Soup, tomato, canned, cond, prepared w/ water: found in 4 of 20 samples, average 0.31, highest 3 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)
WATER, POTATOES, DEHYDRATED POTATOES, MARGARINE (PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED COTTON SEED OIL, SALT, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, COLORED WITH ANNATTO/TURMERIC, CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA AS A PRESERVATIVE, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, VITAMIN A PALMITATE), CREAM, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF: WHEAT FLOUR, SALT, SOYBEAN OIL MIX (PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, LACTOSE, SODIUM CASEINATE, DIPOTASSIUM PHOSPHATE), WHEY, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, DEHYDRATED ONIONS, SUGAR, POTATO STARCH, EGGS, ONION POWDER, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, NATURAL FLAVORING, SPICE, GARLIC POWDER, SODIUM BISULPHITE (TO PROMOTE COLOR RETENTION).
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-10-28. Labels change; check the package.