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Totole Granulated Chicken Flavor Soup Base Mix, Chicken

Totole · Other Soups · barcode 06922130101461

What stands out

Bars show one serving: 1/4 tsp, 1 g, from the label.

  • Likely this product

    A lab test of a product with this brand and name found lead: 90 ppb in 1 sample (matched by name; the lab recorded no barcode). Details

    4% of a toddler's daily limit in 1/4 tsp, 1 g, from the label4% of a toddler's daily limit
    1% of an adult's daily limit in 1/4 tsp, 1 g, from the label1% of an adult's daily limit
  • Lab testsA lab tested a product with this brand and name. See results
  • RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
  • AdditivesNone of the additives we track appear in the ingredients.
  • TypicalFDA's tests of other soups show what's typical. See levels

Lab results for a matching product

Likely this product: the lab recorded its brand and name but not its barcode, so we matched it by brand and name. Package size and recipe may differ.

Totole Granulated chicken flavor soup mix

Measured in this product King County (WA), via detectlead.com (2022)

  • Lead: 90 ppb (found in 1 of 1 sample, highest 90). A toddler reaches FDA's daily limit at about 24 g (0.85 oz) a day of this; an adult at about 98 g (3.5 oz).
    One serving (1/4 tsp, 1 g, from the label):
    4% of a toddler's daily limit in 1/4 tsp, 1 g, from the label4% of a toddler's daily limit
    1% of an adult's daily limit in 1/4 tsp, 1 g, from the label1% of an adult's daily limit
    Among tested products of this kind (ppb, log scale): this one others
    101,000100,00010,000,0002 products from 25.5 to 40.8 ppb: Dried okra (brand not recorded); Red pepper spice paste--Mana Gabeya store bulk (brand not recorded)50 products from 40.8 to 65.2 ppb32 products from 65.2 to 104 ppb, this product among them20 products from 104 to 166 ppb82 products from 166 to 266 ppb149 products from 266 to 425 ppb142 products from 425 to 678 ppb101 products from 678 to 1,084 ppb95 products from 1,084 to 1,731 ppb43 products from 1,731 to 2,766 ppb46 products from 2,766 to 4,419 ppb17 products from 4,419 to 7,061 ppb17 products from 7,061 to 11,280 ppb15 products from 11,280 to 18,022 ppb8 products from 18,022 to 28,794 ppb9 products from 28,794 to 46,003 ppb12 products from 46,003 to 73,499 ppb4 products from 73,499 to 117,427 ppb: Spices mixtures. (brand not recorded); Dry coriander (brand not recorded); Gira (brand not recorded); Adjika Powder (brand not recorded)7 products from 117,427 to 187,610 ppb6 products from 187,610 to 299,740 ppb3 products from 299,740 to 478,886 ppb: Georgian spice (Uckho) (brand not recorded); Georgian salt (brand not recorded); Seasoned Salt (brand not recorded)3 products from 478,886 to 765,105 ppb: Square Consumer Products Radhuni Turmeric Powder; Balqees Spices Yemeni Spices Mix (brand not recorded); Utxo Suneli (brand not recorded)9 products from 765,105 to 1,222,389 ppb7 products from 1,222,389 to 1,952,979 ppb10 products from 1,952,979 to 3,120,226 ppb7 products from 3,120,226 to 4,985,106 ppb6 products from 4,985,106 to 7,964,578 ppb3 products from 7,964,578 to 12,724,806 ppb: All purpose soup base powder (brand not recorded); Georgian Chilli Powder (brand not recorded); Georgian spice (yellow flower) (brand not recorded)4 products from 12,724,806 to 20,330,101 ppb: Zaprana (brand not recorded); No name Seasoning (brand not recorded); Orange Spice (brand not recorded); Georgian spice (Yellow flour) (brand not recorded)2 products from 20,330,101 to 32,480,889 ppb: Zaprana/Yellow Flower (brand not recorded); Hviteli Hvavili (brand not recorded)1 product from 32,480,889 to 51,893,896 ppb: Georgian saffron (zaprana) (brand not recorded)1 product from 51,893,896 to 82,909,568 ppb: TNT TMT Khmeli Sunelithis one

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Typical for other soups

FDA's averages for this kind of food (this product has its own lab results above)

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).
  • 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: Perchlorate, Phthalates (plastic softeners), Phthalate substitutes, Bisphenols. That means nobody has published a test, not that these are absent.

Ingredients (from the label)

SALT, RICE, SUGAR, MONOSODIUM L-GLUTAMATE(LESS THAN 15%), FLAVORINGS, DISODIUM 5'-RIBONUCLEOTIDE, SPICES, YEAST EXTRACT, ACID-HYDROLYZED VEGETABLE PROTEIN SEASONING (DEGREASED SOYBEAN), SESAME OIL.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2019-12-06. Labels change; check the package.

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