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Is Batchelors Slim a Soup Minestrone with Croutons 4 Sachets ultra-processed?

61g Dehydrated soups Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Batchelors Slim a Soup Minestrone with Croutons 4 Sachets

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:

  • 37 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score B

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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, Tomatoes 31%, Vegetables 10% (Carrot, Onion, Red Pepper, Peas, Leek), Ring Noodles 1.5% (Water, Wheat Flour, Salt), Croutons 1% (Wheat Flour (Calcium, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Palm Oil, Salt, Yeast, Antioxidant (Rosemary Extracts)), Maize Starch, Potato Starch, Salt, Glucose Syrup, Sugar, Flavourings, Parsley, Flavour Enhancers (Monosodium Glutamate, Disodium 5'-ribonucleotides), Thickener (Xanthan Gum), Colour (Beetroot Red)

Additives: E162 Beetroot red , E392 Extracts of rosemary , E415 Xanthan gum , E621 Monosodium glutamate , E635 Disodium 5'-ribonucleotide

As written on the pack

Water, Tomatoes 31%, Vegetables 10% (Carrot, Onion, Red Pepper, Peas, Leek), Ring Noodles 1.5% (Water, Wheat Flour, Salt), Croutons 1% (Wheat Flour (Calcium, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Palm Oil, Salt, Yeast, Antioxidant (Rosemary Extracts)), Maize Starch, Potato Starch, Salt, Glucose Syrup, Sugar, Flavourings, Parsley, Flavour Enhancers (Monosodium Glutamate, Disodium 5'-ribonucleotides), Thickener (Xanthan Gum), Colour (Beetroot Red).

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.

  • 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.
  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • 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.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Flavour enhancer Flavour enhancers such as monosodium glutamate (E621) strengthen savoury taste without adding a flavour of their own.
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  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.

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.
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 55 dehydrated soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 49th. 84% of the dehydrated 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 55 dehydrated soups, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000175409344, last edited 27 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.