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Is Kania Minestrone Soup with Pasta ultra-processed?

400 g Canned soups Sold in the United Kingdom, Sweden and Germany

Pack of Kania Minestrone Soup with Pasta

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:

  • 29 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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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

Vatten, grönsaker i varierande proportion 39% (vitkål, potatis, vita bönor, morot 11%, ärter, lök, gröna bönor 7%, paprika 6%, purjolök, tomat), tomatpuré, kokt pasta 4.5% (vatten, durumvete, ägg), rapsolja, salt, socker, förtjockningsmedel (guarkärnmjöl), Parmigiano Reggiano (ost), modifierad stärkelse, kryddor, vetemjöl, äggvita, skummjölkspulver

Additives: E14XX Modified Starch , E412 Guar gum

As written on the pack

Vatten, grönsaker i varierande proportion 39 % (vitkål, potatis, vita bönor, morot 11 %, ärter, lök, gröna bönor 7 %, paprika 6 %, purjolök, tomat), tomatpuré, kokt pasta 4,5 % (vatten, durumvete, ägg), rapsolja, salt, socker, förtjockningsmedel (guarkärnmjöl), Parmigiano Reggiano SUB (ost), modifierad stärkelse, kryddor (innehåller selleri, senap), vetemjöl, äggvita, skummjölkspulver.

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.

  • E14xx Modified Starch Modified starches (E1400 to E1452) are starches treated physically, with enzymes or chemically so that they thicken and hold up to heating, freezing or acidity better than ordinary starch.
  • E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.
  • 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.
6 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.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 190 canned soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 165th. 68% of the canned 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 190 canned soups, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20450236, last edited 25 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.