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Is Aldi Tomato Basil soup ultra-processed?

Tomato soups Sold in the United States

Pack of Aldi Tomato Basil soup

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 19 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed fruits and vegetables based foods

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

water, tomato paste, cane sugar, durum flour (red durum wheat flour, malted barley, niacin, iron, et 1 cup, riboflavin, thiamine mononitrate, 80 پرو per container of the following ingredients (folic acid)), contains less than 2% canola oil, sea salt, basil, garlic, parsley, 290 3%

As written on the pack

water, concentrated tomato paste*, cane sugar*, enriched durum flour* (red durum wheat flour*, malted barley, niacin, iron, et 1 cup (252g) riboflavin, thiamine mononitrate, 80 پرو per container of the following ingredients: folic acid), contains less than 2% canola oil*, sea salt, basil*, garlic powder*, dehydrated parsley*, *organic ingredients %dv* contains: wheat, 290 9% 3%

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 31 tomato soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 9th. 61% of the tomato soups here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 31 tomato soups, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4099100049466, last edited 22 April 2024), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
  • NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.