Is BOL Garden Pea & Spinach Soup ultra-processed?

600g Soups Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of BOL Garden Pea & Spinach Soup

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 19 ingredients
  • 2 additives

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Water, Peas 27%, Cannellini Beans 9%, Courgette 9%, Courgette 7%, Potatoes, White Onions, Spinach, Basil, Coconut Cream, Garlic, Lemon Juice, Rapeseed Oil, Sunflower Seeds, Mint, Salt (processing marker), Bicarbonate Soda, Black Pepper, White Pepper

Additives: E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Water, Peas (27%), Cannellini Beans (9%), Courgette (9%), Courgette (7%), Potatoes, White Onions, Spinach, Basil, Coconut Cream, Garlic, Lemon Juice, Rapeseed Oil, Sunflower Seeds, Mint, Salt, Bicarbonate Soda, Black Pepper, White Pepper.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 722 soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 267th. 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 5060430291961, 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.