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Is Deluxe Spicy soup with lentils and tomatoes ultra-processed?

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Pack of Deluxe Spicy soup with lentils and tomatoes

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:

  • 28 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score A

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Water 16%, Lentils 12%, Tomatoes, Potatoes, Black Beans, Red Peppers, Sugar, Tomato Purée, Carrots, Onions, Dried Tomatoes 1%, Modified Maize Starch, Rapeseed Oil, Salt, Thickener (Guar Gum), Yeast Extract, Spices, Smoked Paprika, Dextrose, Lime Juice, Flavouring, Hydrolysed Vegetable Protein, Acid (Lactic Acid), Sugar Syrup, Chipotle Chillies, Basil

Additives: E270 Lactic acid , E412 Guar gum

As written on the pack

Water (16%), Lentils (12%), Tomatoes, Potatoes, Black Beans, Red Peppers, Sugar, Double Concentrated Tomato Purée, Carrots, Onions, Dried Tomatoes (1%), Modified Maize Starch, Rapeseed Oil, Salt, Thickener: Guar Gum, Yeast Extract, Spices, Smoked Paprika, Smoked Dextrose, Concentrated Lime Juice, Flavouring, Hydrolysed Vegetable Protein, Acid: Lactic Acid, Caramelized Sugar Syrup, Ground Smoked Chipotle Chillies, Basil.

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.

  • E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.

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.
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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 722 soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 634th. 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 4056489848462, last edited 21 May 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 A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.