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Is Baxters Carrot & butter bean ultra-processed?

Canned soups Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Baxters Carrot & butter bean

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:

  • 22 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score A

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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, carrots 27%, butter beans 13%, tomatoes onions, rapeseed oil, modified maize starch, cornflour, salt, yeast entrat, parsley, sugar, fennel, white pepper, can, aim for at least 5 different portions of fruit and vega day, f you have any comments and require more information, please contec (barters food group), fochabers, scotland, iv32 7ld, ter 0800 389 8389 and please visit us at www.baxters.com

As written on the pack

water, carrots (27%), butter beans (13%), tomatoes onions, rapeseed oil, modified maize starch, cornflour, salt, yeast entrat. parsley, sugar, ground fennel, white pepper. "per can. aim for at least 5 different portions of fruit or vega day. f you have any comments or require more information, please contec: barters food group, fochabers, scotland, iv32 7ld. ter 0800 389 8389 or please visit us at www.baxters.com

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.

  • 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 190 canned soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 87th. 68% of the canned 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 190 canned soups, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5012427141209, 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 A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.