Minestrone soups, from least to most processed

We track 11 minestrone soups, 55% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Minestrone.

What makes minestrone soups ultra-processed

The signs of ultra-processing found most often, and the share of minestrone soups that contain each:

Processed food (5)

  1. 1 Minestrone Sainsbury's NOVA group 3
  2. 2 Minestrone Soup Marks & Spencer NOVA group 3
  3. 3 Tesco Minestrone Tesco · 600 g NOVA group 3
  4. 4 Vegetable Minestrone Rao's · 16 oz NOVA group 3
  5. 5 Minestrone Soup with Bacon M&S Food · 600 g NOVA group 3

Ultra-processed food (6)

  1. 6 Minestrone Soup Heinz · 400g NOVA group 4
  2. 7 Minestrone soup Aldi · 400g NOVA group 4
  3. 8 Minestronesuppe 400g Baxters Oluf lorentzen as · 400 g NOVA group 4
  4. 9 Minestrone with Croutons Batchelors · 4 x 254 g NOVA group 4
  5. 10 Kania Minestrone Soup with Pasta Kania · 400 g NOVA group 4
  6. 11 Slim a Soup Minestrone with Croutons 4 Sachets Batchelors · 61g NOVA group 4

Within each group, products with fewer signs of ultra-processing, additives and ingredients come first. This ordering is ours, for comparison; it is not part of NOVA.