Tradition Ramen Noodle Soup, Imitation Chicken Flavor

Tradition Foods · Other Soups · barcode 00735375118066

What stands out

From the label
The ingredients list Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Partially hydrogenated oils and BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole), which have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA; EU warning label. Details

Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
Additives3 ingredients have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA; EU warning label. 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 2022-05-23). Recipes change, so check the package you have.

Rules that apply to more than one of these

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. Applies to Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole).
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: 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. Applies to Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole).
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.

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 in school meals from 2025-08-01 Banned in West Virginia school meals since August 1, 2025. (HB 2354 (2025)) Source

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

BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) (E320)

US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows it as a preservative. Source
EU: Allowed On the EU's list of approved additives as E320. For limited uses. (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) 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 pkg, 85 g, from the label):
4% of a toddler's daily limit
under 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, 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)

ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, FOLIC ACID), PALM OIL, SALT, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, MALTODEXTRIN, HYDROLYSED SOY AND CORN PROTEIN, SUGAR, DEHYDRATED VEGETABLES (ONION, GARLIC, PARSLEY), CANOLA OIL, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, SILICON DIOXIDE (ANTICAKING AGENT), DISODIUM INOSINATE, DISODIUM GUANYLATE, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SPICES (PAPRIKA, TURMERIC), POTASSIUM CARBONATE, SODIUM CARBONATE, SODIUM TRIPOLYPHOSPHATE, GUAR GUM, FD&C YELLOW # 5 LAKE, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL (ANTIDUSTING AGENT), YEAST EXTRACT, THIAMINE HYDROCHLORIDE, SPICE EXTRACTIVES, BHA, TBHQ.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2022-05-23. Labels change; check the package.

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