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Is Knorr Mexican soup ultra-processed?

64 g Dehydrated soups Sold in Sweden

Pack of Knorr Mexican 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:

  • 28 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed dehydrated 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

Pasta 44% (durumvetemjöl), grönsaker 18% (morötter, röd paprika, tomat, rotselleri, purjolök, savojkl, lök), salt, stärkelse, majs, fruktsocker, kycklingkött 2.2%, med antioxidant (e307, e304), palmfett, jästextrakt, kycklingfett, arom, persilja, kryddor, karamelliserat socker, maltodextrin, antioxidationsmedel (extrakt av rosmarin)

Additives: E304 Fatty acid esters of ascorbic acid , E307 Alpha-tocopherol , E392 Extracts of rosemary

As written on the pack

Pasta 44 % (DURUMVETEMJÖL), grönsaker 18% (morötter, röd paprika, tomat, ROTSELLERI, purjolök, savojkl, lök), salt, stärkelse, majs, fruktsocker, kycklingkött 2,2% (med antioxidant (E307, E304), palmfett, jästextrakt, kycklingfett, arom, persilja', kryddor, karamelliserat socker, maltodextrin, antioxidationsmedel (extrakt av rosmarin).

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.

  • 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.

  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn 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.
  • 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 55 dehydrated soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 18th. 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 8718114863818, 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.