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Is Continental Classics Creamy Chicken & Corn with Croutons ultra-processed?

60 g Dehydrated soups Sold in Australia and New Zealand

Pack of Continental Classics Creamy Chicken & Corn with Croutons

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:

  • 37 ingredients
  • 3 additives

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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

Ingredients Starch (potato, corn), maltodextrin, croutons 9% (wheat flour, palm oil, salt, yeast), creamer vegetable oil, glucose syrup, lactose, milk protein, mineral (salts (340‚452)), sugar, vegetables (corn^, onion), salt, natural flavours, mineral (salt (potassium chloride)), flavour enhancer (621), chives, vegetable oil, hydrolysed vegetable protein, chicken 0.4%, natural colours (turmeric, carotene), food acid (citric), herb extract

Additives: E340 Potassium phosphates , E452 Polyphosphates , E621 Monosodium glutamate

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E452 Polyphosphates, E621 Monosodium glutamate.

As written on the pack

Ingredients Starch (potato, corn), maltodextrin, croutons (9%) (wheat flour, palm oil, salt, yeast), creamer vegetable oil, glucose syrup, lactose, milk protein, mineral salts (340,452), sugar, vegetables (corn^ (2%), onion powder), salt, natural flavours, mineral salt (potassium chloride), flavour enhancer (621), chives, vegetable oil, hydrolysed vegetable protein, chicken powder (0.4%), natural colours (turmeric, carotene), food acid (citric), herb extract. Contains wheat, gluten, milk. May contain soy, peanut, egg, sesame, tree nuts, fish, crustacean, lupin.

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.
  • E621 Monosodium glutamate Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is the sodium salt of glutamic acid, made by fermentation and used to strengthen savoury taste.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Flavour enhancer Flavour enhancers such as monosodium glutamate (E621) strengthen savoury taste without adding a flavour of their own.
  • 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.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
  • Milk proteins Milk proteins are proteins separated from milk, such as caseinates and whey protein concentrates, added to adjust texture or raise protein content.
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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 55 dehydrated soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 47th. 84% of the dehydrated 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 55 dehydrated soups, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 9300667025059, last edited 6 June 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.