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Whole Foods Market Vegan Chicken Noodle Soup, Vegan Chicken Noodle

Wells Select · Canned Soup · barcode 00713091478695

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 canned soup show what's typical. See levels

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2022-01-06). 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 canned soup

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, tomato, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 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, tomato, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 3 of 3, average 8.5, highest 10 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, tomato, canned, condensed, prepared with water: 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, tomato, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 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)
  • Perchlorate in Soup, tomato, canned, cond, prepared w/ water: found in 4 of 20, 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)

VEGETABLE BROTH (WATER, VEGETABLE STOCK CONCENTRATE (NATURAL FLAVOR, SALT, OUVE OIL PALM OIL XANTHAN GUM). ONIONS, VEGAN CHICKEN (WATER, VITAL WHEAT GLUTEN, EXPELLER PRESSED CANOLA OIL, TOFU [WATER, SOYBEANS, MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE, CALCIUM CHLORIDE), NATURAL FLAVORS, CORNSTARCH, OAT FIBER, CANE SUGAR, GARLIC PURE, GRANULATED GARLIC, ONION POWDER, SEA SALT, SPICES, SOY SAUCE (WATER, SOYBEANS, WHEAT, SALT), NATURAL SMOKE FLAVOR, EXPELLER PRESSED SUNFLOWER SEED OIL, EXPELLER PRESSED SESAME SEED OIL, EXPELLER PRESSED CELERY SEED OIL, CITRIC ACID, CALCIUM LACTATE, POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, TITANIUM DIOXIDE (COLOR), GUM ARABIC, XANTHAN GUM), PASTA (SEMOLINA, NIACIN, IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), CARROTS, CELERY, BUTTERY SPREAD (EXPELLER PRESSED CANOLA OIL EXPELLER PRESSED PALM OIL, WATER, SALT, NATURAL FLAVOR, SUNFLOWER LECITHIN, OLIVE OIL, LACTIC ACID, ANNATTO EXTRACT (COLORD, FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR), GARLIC (GARLIC, WATER, CITRIC ACID (TO PROMOTE COLOR RETENTION]), PARSLEY, SALT, CORNSTARCH, THYME BLACK PEPPER, BAY LEAVES.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2022-01-06. Labels change; check the package.

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