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Is Deluxe Chicken and vegetable soup ultra-processed?

400 g Chicken soups Sold in Ireland and the Netherlands

Pack of Deluxe Chicken and vegetable soup

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:

  • 22 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed chicken 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

Water, Vegetables in Varying Proportions 45% (Canots Potatoes, Onions, Leeks, Celery), Chicken 5%, Butter, Cream, Chicken Stock (Maltodextrin, Salt, Yeast Extract, Natural Favouring (Wheat, Barley), Chicken Fat, Sugar, Spices, Dextrose), Salt, Black Pepper

As written on the pack

Water, 45% Vegetables in Varying Proportions (Canots Potatoes, Onions, Leeks, Celery). 5% Chicken, Butter (Milk), Cream (Milk), Chicken Stock (Maltodextrin, Salt, Yeast Extract, Natural Favouring (Wheat, Barley), Chicken Fat, Sugar, Spices (Celery), Dextrose), Salt, Ground Black Pepper

What makes it ultra-processed

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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
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.
  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 15 chicken soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 10th. 60% of the chicken 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 15 chicken soups, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20403768, last edited 2 April 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.