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Is Batchelors Beef and Tomato soup ultra-processed?

Soups Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Batchelors Beef and Tomato 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:

  • 26 ingredients
  • 11 additives
  • Nutri-Score B

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Water, Tomato 11%, Glucose Syrup, Maize Starch, Beef 1%, Onion, Salt, Vegetable Oils (Palm Vegetable Oils, Sunflower Vegetable Oils), Sugar, Yeast Extract, Monosodium Glutamate, Disodium 5'-ribonucleotide, Glycine, Barley Malt, Beetroot Red, Beta Carotene, Parsley, Trisodium Citrate, Milk Proteins, Flavourings, Garlic, Citric Acid, mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids, Black Pepper Extract

Additives: E160a Carotene , E160ai Beta-carotene , E162 Beetroot red , E330 Citric acid , E331 Sodium citrates , E331iii Trisodium citrate , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids , E621 Monosodium glutamate , E635 Disodium 5'-ribonucleotide , E640 Glycine and its sodium salt , E640i Glycine

As written on the pack

Water, Tomato (11%), Glucose Syrup, Maize Starch, Beef (1%), Onion, Salt, Vegetable Oils (Palm, Sunflower), Sugar, Yeast Extract (contains Barley), Flavour Enhancers (Monosodium Glutamate, Disodium 5'-ribonucleotide, Glycine), Roasted Barley Malt Extract, Colours (Beetroot Red, Beta Carotene), Parsley, Acidity Regulator (Trisodium Citrate), Milk Proteins, Flavourings (contains Milk), Garlic, Acid (Citric Acid), Emulsifier (Mono - and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids), Black Pepper 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.

  • E160a Carotene Carotenes are orange-yellow pigments, either synthesised or extracted from carrots, algae or palm oil.
  • E162 Beetroot red Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids are made from fats and glycerol.
  • E621 Monosodium glutamate Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is the sodium salt of glutamic acid, made by fermentation and used to strengthen savoury taste.
  • E635 Disodium 5'-ribonucleotide A food additive authorised for industrial food production.
  • E640 Glycine and its sodium salt A food additive authorised for industrial food production.
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  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

Substances rarely used in home kitchens

Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Milk proteins Milk proteins are proteins separated from milk, such as caseinates and whey protein concentrates, added to adjust texture or raise protein content.
5 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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 722 soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 707th. 63% of the 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 722 soups, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000354402722, last edited 29 August 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.