Rest assured, Campbell's soup lovers — the company says it isn't tinkering with its classic chicken noodle recipe.
News reports on Tuesday morning indicated that Campbell was rethinking that recipe. It is, however, making changes to a kids' chicken-and-pasta soup, according to a company spokesperson.
Campbell Soup senior communications manager Tom Hushen said the move comes in response to changing consumer tastes and will slash the soup's ingredients from 30 to 20.
The new recipe, which took two months to finesse, debuts in a "Star Wars"-themed can, in time for "The Force Awakens."
Communications director Anna Burr said the company has scrapped egg whites, potassium chloride, monosodium glutamate, chicken flavor, other flavoring, maltodextrin, celery, cornstarch, disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate, lactic acid, space, soybean oil and soy lecithin from a prior version of the kids' soup.
According to The New York Times, the soup is meant to taste the same while reducing additives and flavor enhancers.
The ingredients that remain include chicken stock, enriched pasta, carrots, chicken meat, chicken fat, salt, modified food starch, water, dehydrated mechanically separated chicken, flavoring, yeast extract, dehydrated chicken broth, sugar, beta carotene, dehydrated onions, soy protein isolate, sodium phosphate, dehydrated chicken, onion extract and garlic extract, Burr said.
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Hushen and Burr emphasized that Campbell's beloved red-and-white can is staying the same.
