Is Asda Vegetable Chilli ultra-processed?

392 g Canned meals Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Asda Vegetable Chilli

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:

  • 21 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Tomato Purée, Red Peppers 15%, Onions 12%, Tomatoes 9%, Red Kidney Beans 9%, Carrots 8%, Potatoes, Black Beans 8%, Rapeseed Oil, Cornflour, Tomato Juice, Garlic Purée, Sugar (processing marker), Coriander, Cumin, Coriander Leaf, Salt (processing marker), Paprika Powder, Oregano, Chilli, Black Pepper

As written on the pack

Tomato Purée, Red Peppers (15%), Onions (12%), Tomatoes (9%), Red Kidney Beans (9%), Carrots (8%), Potatoes, Black Beans (8%), Rapeseed Oil, Cornflour, Tomato Juice, Garlic Purée, Sugar, Coriander Powder, Cumin, Coriander Leaf, Salt, Paprika Powder, Oregano, Chilli Powder, Black Pepper

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 227 canned meals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 52nd. 69% of the canned meals 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 227 canned meals, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5054781876007, last edited 11 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 A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.