Hy-vee Cajun Style Chicken & Sausage Gumbo Soup, Cajun Style Chicken & Sausage Gumbo

Hy-Vee, Inc. · Other Soups · barcode 00075450089431

What stands out

From the label
The ingredients list Potassium bromate, which has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not approved in the EU; California ban from 2027. Details

Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
Additives1 ingredient has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not approved in the EU; California ban from 2027. Which
TypicalFDA's tests of other soups 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.

Rules that apply to more than one of these

US (FDA): Allowed Source. Applies to all of them.
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. Applies to all of them.
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. Applies to all of them.

Potassium bromate

EU: Not authorised Not on the EU's list of approved food additives (checked against the version in force on 18 August 2026). (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, Annex II) Source
California: Banned from 2027-01-01 Banned in food made, sold or distributed in California after January 1, 2027. (AB 418 (2023)) 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

Typical for other soups

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

Cadmium: typically 5.4 ppb (FDA, 12 samples, 2018-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 2.2 L (9¼ cups) a day; an adult at about 10 L (41¾ cups).
One serving (1 cup, 245 g, from the label):
11% of a toddler's daily limit
2% 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, chicken noodle, 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)
Lead in Soup, vegetable beef, canned, ready to serve: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Soup, vegetable, canned, ready to serve: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 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, tomato, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 8.5, highest 10 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Soup, vegetable beef, canned, ready to serve: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 10.3, highest 20 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Soup, vegetable, canned, ready to serve: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 5.97, highest 9.3 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, tomato, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Soup, vegetable beef, canned, ready to serve: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Soup, vegetable, canned, ready to serve: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 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, tomato, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Soup, vegetable beef, canned, ready to serve: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Soup, vegetable, canned, ready to serve: 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, TOMATOES (DICED TOMATOES, TOMATO JUICE, CITRIC ACID, CALCIUM CHLORIDE), SMOKED SAUSAGE (PORK, WATER, BEEF, SALT, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF CORN SYRUP, FLAVORINGS, POTASSIUM LACTATE, DEXTROSE, PAPRIKA, SODIUM DIACETATE, SODIUM ERYTHORBATE, SODIUM NITRITE), CHICKEN, OKRA, PARBOILED WHITE RICE (ENRICHED WITH IRON [FERRIC ORTHOPHOSPHATE], NIACIN, THIAMINE, FOLIC ACID), ONION, GREEN BELL PEPPER, FOOD STARCH-MODIFIED (WITH ERYTHORBIC ACID ADDED), TOMATO PASTE, CELERY, FLOUR (BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, POTASSIUM BROMATE, ENZYME), LIQUID SHORTENING (HIGH OLEIC CANOLA OIL, SOYBEAN OIL, HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, SALT, SOYBEAN LECITHIN, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL BUTTER FLAVOR, TBHQ, CITRIC ACID, BETA CAROTENE [COLOR], VITAMIN A PALMITATE), SALT, CAYENNE PEPPER SAUCE (AGED CAYENNE PEPPERS, DISTILLED VINEGAR, WATER, SALT, GARLIC POWDER), GARLIC, SUGAR, HYDROLYZED CORN PROTEIN (HYDROLYZED CORN PROTEIN WITH SUNFLOWER OIL ADDED), RED PEPPER, CARROT POWDER (SALT, OLEORESIN CARROT [COLOR]), CHICKEN FAT FLAVOR (HYDROLYZED CORN GLUTEN, SALT, MALTODEXTRIN, CHICKEN FAT, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, SPICES, SUGAR, NATURAL FLAVORS, DISODIUM INOSINATE, DISODIUM GUANYLATE), BLACK PEPPER, ONION POWDER, PAPRIKA (SILICON DIOXIDE, ETHOXYQUIN), TURMERIC POWDER (SALT, OLEORESIN TURMERIC [COLOR]), YEAST EXTRACT, WHITE PEPPER, BAY LEAF, PARSLEY, THYME, OREGANO.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-10-28. Labels change; check the package.

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