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Is Lidl Deluxe Creamy tomato & basil soup ultra-processed?

400g Vegetable soups Sold in Ireland

Pack of Lidl Deluxe Creamy tomato & basil soup

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 20 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Less processed fruits and vegetables based foods

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

Chopped Tomatoes 36%, Water, Onions, Cream 7%, Tomato Purée 3%, Butter, Sugar, Vegetable Stock (Salt, Yeast Extract, Rice Flour, Sunflower Oil, Onions, Carrots, Celery, Turmeric, Parsley), Salt, Fresh Basil 0.2%, Black Pepper

As written on the pack

36% Chopped Tomatoes, Water, Onions, 7% Cream (Milk), 3% Tomato Purée, Butter (Milk), Sugar, Vegetable Stock (Salt, Yeast Extract, Rice Flour, Sunflower Oil, Onions, Carrots, Celery, Turmeric, Parsley), Salt, 0.2% Fresh Basil, Ground Black Pepper

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • 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.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 226 vegetable soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 57th. 52% of the vegetable 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 226 vegetable soups, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20403782, 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.