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Is Baxters Cream of Tomato ultra-processed?

400 g Cream of tomato soups Sold in the United Kingdom and Denmark

Pack of Baxters Cream of Tomato

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:

  • 18 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed cream of tomato 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

Tomatoes 63%, Water, Double Cream, Sugar, Modified Maize Starch, Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin), Skimmed Milk Powder, Butter, Salt, Polyphosphates, Citric Acid, Onion Powder, White Pepper

Additives: E330 Citric acid , E452 Polyphosphates

As written on the pack

Tomatoes (63%), Water, Double Cream (Milk) (3%), Sugar, Modified Maize Starch, Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin), Skimmed Milk Powder, Butter (Milk), Salt, Stabiliser (Polyphosphates), Acidity Regulator (Citric Acid), Onion Powder, White Pepper.

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.

  • E452 Polyphosphates Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.
  • 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.
6 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.
  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • 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.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 8 cream of tomato soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 7th. 75% of the cream of tomato 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 8 cream of tomato soups, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5012427142701, last edited 27 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.