Myojo Chukazanmai Japanese Style Cold Noodles, Sesame Flavored Sauce With Mustard

Myojo Foods Of America Inc. · Pizza Mixes & Other Dry Dinners · barcode 00074891008032

What stands out

From the label
The ingredients list Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), which has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: West Virginia ban from 2028; EU warning label. Details

Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
Additives1 ingredient has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: West Virginia ban from 2028; EU warning label. Which
TypicalFDA's tests of pizza mixes & other dry dinners show what's typical. See levels

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2021-07-29). Recipes change, so check the package you have.

Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine) (E102)

US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows Yellow No. 5 as a certified color additive. Source
EU: Allowed with warning label Allowed as E102, but foods containing it must say it "may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children." (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, Annex V) Source
California: Banned in school meals from 2027-12-31 Banned in food and drinks offered in California public schools from December 31, 2027. (AB 2316 (2024)) Source
West Virginia: Banned from 2028-01-01 Food containing it is treated as adulterated in West Virginia from January 1, 2028. (HB 2354 (2025)) Source
West Virginia: Banned in school meals from 2025-08-01 Banned in West Virginia school meals since August 1, 2025. (HB 2354 (2025)) 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: Banned in school meals from 2028-2029 school year Banned in Louisiana school food from the 2028-2029 school year (concession stands and vending machines exempt). (SB 14, Act 463 (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 pizza mixes & other dry dinners

FDA doesn't test this exact kind of food, so these are the closest foods it does test. Treat them as a rough guide.

Cadmium: typically 19.1 ppb (FDA, 30 samples, 2017-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 760 g (27 oz) a day; an adult at about 3.6 kg (7.9 lb).
One serving (4.93 oz, 140 g, from the label):
18% of a toddler's daily limit
4% of an adult's daily limit
Arsenic (total): typically 3.33 ppb (FDA, 30 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
Lead, Mercury: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.

FDA samples behind these numbers

Lead in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from boxed mix: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Pizza, cheese, fast-food: found in 2 of 27 samples, average 0.32, highest 4.6 ppb (2017-2020)
Cadmium in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from boxed mix: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 11.1, highest 13 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Pizza, cheese, fast-food: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 20.6, highest 25 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from boxed mix: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Pizza, cheese, fast-food: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from boxed mix: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Pizza, cheese, fast-food: found in 25 of 27 samples, average 3.74, highest 6 ppb (2017-2020)
Perchlorate in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from box mix: found in 19 of 20 samples, average 3.5, highest 5 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)

NOODLES: WHEAT FLOUR, POTATO STARCH, MODIFIED TAPIOCA STARCH, PALM OIL, SALT, SODIUM CARBONATE, SODIUM METAPHOSPHATE, POTASSIUM CARBONATE, SODIUM TRIPOLYPHOSPHATE, FD & C YELLOW NO.5. LIQUID SEASONING: SUGAR, SOY SAUCE(WATER, SOYBEANS, WHEAT, SALT), SESAME PASTE, VINEGAR, VEGETABLE OIL(SESAMESEED OIL, RICE OIL, RAPESEED OIL), HYDROLYZED PROTEIN(SOYBEANS, BONITO, SARDINE, TUNA, CORN), SWEET COOKING RICE WINE(GLUTINOUS RICE, MALTED RICE, ALCOHOL, CORN SYRUP, WATER), MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, SALT, ACETIC ACID, SCALLOP EXTRACT, YEAST EXTRACT, CITRIC ACID, CARAMEL COLOR, DISODIUM INOSINATE, MALIC ACID, DISODIUM SUCCINATE. PAPRIKA COLOR, GLYCINE, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, DISODIUM GUANYLATE, SUCCINIC ACID. MUSTARD: MUSTARD, LACTIC ACID, ACETIC ACID, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, TURMERIC COLOR, CITRIC ACID, SODIUM ACETATE, VITAMIN C, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, TAMARIND EXTRACT.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-07-29. Labels change; check the package.

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