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Progresso

Flavor:

Traditional Creamy Chicken Noodle

Ingredients:

Chicken Broth, Carrots, Cooked White Chicken Meat, Egg Noodles (semolina wheat, egg*, egg white*), Celery, Modified Food Starch. Contains less than 2% of: Soybean Oil, Water, Salt, Chicken Fat, Maltodextrin, Sugar, Cream, Flavoring, Potassium Chloride, Soy Protein Concentrate, Yeast extract, Natural Flavor, Sodium Phosphate, Butter, Whey Protein Concentrate, Soy Protein Isolate, Chicken*, Parsley*, Nonfat Milk, Cultured Whey, Spice, Citric Acid, Dextrin, Cultured Wheat Gluten, Nonfat Milk*, Butter Oil, Beta Carotene (color). *Dried

Rating: We Avoid

Ingredient Score:

“I am reviewing and scoring food products for my website. The goal of the website is to provide cleaner food options in a crowded market of unheathy products. I am currently reviewing and scoring the ‘Progresso Traditional Chicken & Sausage Gumbo’, and I have given it a score of -40/100 (which on our website equates to a score of 1/5 green leaves).

Here are the ingredients of the product: Chicken Broth, Tomato Puree (water, tomato paste), Rice, Cooked White Chicken Meat, Cooked Andouille Sausage Crumbles with Smoke Flavor Added (pork, water, and 2% or less of the following: garlic, salt, spice, paprika, sugar, dehydrated garlic, natural flavor, maltodextrin, modified corn starch, corn syrup solids, natural smoke flavor, sodium phosphate, rendered pork fat, yeast extract, canola oil), Tomatoes, Green Sweet Pepper, Celery, Okra. Contains less than 1.5% of: Modified Food Starch, Corn and Soy Protein (hydrolyzed), Maltodextrin, Water, Salt, Spice, Potassium Chloride, Onion Powder, Sugar, Garlic Powder, Tomato Extract, Dextrose, Soy Protein Isolate, Dried Parsley, Sodium Phosphate, Flavor, Natural Flavor, Yeast Extract, Calcium Chloride, Citric Acid.

Here’s how we scored it. Each product starts with a total of 100 points and we deduct a certain number of points for every occurrence of ingredients we consider harmful OR when it’s not organic or has GMO ingredients. Here’s a breakdown of our score and the ingredients:
Is it organic: No, -10 points
Uses non-GMO ingredients: No, -10 points
It contains added sugars: -10 points for Sugar, Citric Acid
It contains more harmful added sugars: -20 points for Dextrose, corn syrup
It contains potentially harmful additives: -20 points for Natural Flavor, Flavor, Rum, Modified food starch, Corn starch
It contains known harmful additives: -30 points for Maltodextrin
It contains have harmful oils: -20 points for Canola

This product has a score of 1/5 and that is the lowest possible score. We would advice avoiding this product. With that in mind, write a thoughtful summary of this product. Present the green leaf rating first, with a brief summary of the product. Then go into more detail, covering the information and ingreditents provided above. Finish with a summary/conclusion but do not use terms like ‘In summary’ or ‘In conclusion’. Do not mention the flavor of the product or give any opinion on its flavor profile.

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