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Is M&S Food Chunk Smoked Haddock Chowder ultra-processed?

600g Soups Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of M&S Food Chunk Smoked Haddock Chowder

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:

  • 19 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Less processed 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, Potatoes 17%, Whole Milk, Haddock 10% (Haddock, Colour (e160bii), Salt, Water), Onions, Leeks, Single Cream, Celery, Sweetcorn, Cornflour, Butter, Salt, Chives, Black Pepper

Additives: E160b Annatto , E160bii Annatto norbixin

As written on the pack

Water, Potatoes (17%), Whole Milk. Smoked Haddock (10%) (Haddock (Fish) (97%), Colour: E160b(ii), Salt, Water), Onions, Leeks, Single Cream (Milk), Celery, Sweetcorn, Cornflour, Butter (Milk), Salt, Chives, Ground Black Pepper

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.

  • E160b Annatto Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
3 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 722 soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 450th. 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 00894609, last edited 19 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.