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Is Asda hearty vegetable soup ultra-processed?

400g Canned vegetable soups Sold in the United Kingdom and Germany

Pack of Asda hearty vegetable soup

Yes, it's ultra-processed

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

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 29 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Less processed canned vegetable soups

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, mixed vegetables 28% (carrots, potatoes, garden peas, onions, swede), tomato purée, cooked pasta (water, durum wheat semolina), modified maize starch, haricot beans 2.2%, sugar, salt, rapeseed oil, concentrated carrot juice, yeast extract, leek, onion, antioxidant (ascorbic acid), garlic, flavouring, acidity regulator (citric acid), paprika extract, oregano, parsley

Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E300 Ascorbic acid , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

water, mixed vegetables 28% [carrots 35%, potatoes 35%, garden peas 11%, onions 11%, swede 8.0%], tomato purée, cooked pasta [water, durum wheat semolina], modified maize starch, haricot beans (2.2%), sugar, salt, rapeseed oil, concentrated carrot juice, yeast extract, leek powder, onion powder, antioxidant (ascorbic acid), garlic powder, flavouring, acidity regulator (citric acid), paprika extract, oregano extract, parsley extract

What makes it ultra-processed

Cosmetic additives

Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.
4 ingredients that would only make it processed

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

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 18 canned vegetable soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 15th. 56% of the canned vegetable 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 18 canned vegetable soups, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5054070650233, last edited 25 March 2026), 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.