Is Bramwells Oxtail soup ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 18 ingredients
- 1 additive
- Nutri-Score B
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
water, tomato 19%, beef 4%, wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), cornflour, carrots 1%, modified cornflour (ultra-processing marker), sugar (processing marker), oxtail 1%, onion, flavourings (ultra-processing marker), colour (ultra-processing marker) (plain caramel (ultra-processing marker))
Additives: E150a Plain caramel
As written on the pack
water, tomato (19%), beef (4%), wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), cornflour, carrots (1%), modified cornflour, sugar, oxtail (1%), onion powder, flavourings, colour: plain caramel
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.
- E150a Plain caramel Plain caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars.
- Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
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.
- Modified flour An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
2 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.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
Among 722 soups
From least to most processed, this one ranks 533rd. 63% of the soups here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600068398, 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.