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Is Baxters Veggie Goodness Carrot & Coriander ultra-processed?

Canned soups Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Baxters Veggie Goodness Carrot & Coriander

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:

  • 30 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score C

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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 21%, Onions, Parsnips, Wheatflour (With calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Modified Cornflour, Rapeseed Oil, Whey Powder, Butter, Tomato Paste, Skimmed Milk Powder, Salt, Stabiliser (Polyphosphates), Coriander, Concentrated lemon Juice, Honey, Sugar, Yeast Extract, Onion, Potato Starch, Mixed Spices (White Pepper, Nutmeg, Turmeric), Lovage

Additives: E452 Polyphosphates

As written on the pack

Water, Carrots (21%), Onions, Parsnips, Wheatflour (With calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Modified Cornflour, Rapeseed Oil, Whey Powder (Milk), Butter (Milk), Tomato Paste, Skimmed Milk Powder, Salt, Stabiliser (Polyphosphates), Coriander, Concentrated lemon Juice, Honey, Sugar, Yeast Extract, Onion Powder, Potato Starch, Mixed Spices (White Pepper, Nutmeg, Turmeric), Lovage 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.

  • 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.

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.

  • Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
  • Modified flour An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
7 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.
  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • 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 190 canned soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 132nd. 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 5012427141605, last edited 17 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.