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Is M&S Food Chunky Green Thai Chicken Soup ultra-processed?

600g Soups Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of M&S Food Chunky Green Thai Chicken 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:

  • 49 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Water, British Chicken Thighs 8%, Coconut Cream 6% (Coconut, Water), Onions, Edamame Soybeans 2.5%, Green Beans, Cornflour, Rice Noodles (Rice Flour, Water), Garlic Purée, Ginger, Green Curry Paste 1% (Chillies, Lemongrass, Rapeseed Oil, Garlic Purée, Salt, Galangal, Lime Leaves, Coriander, Cumin, Black Pepper, Turmeric, Chilli, Garlic Extract, Acetic Acid, Lactic Acid), Lime Juice, Soy Sauce (Water, Soybeans, Salt), Fish Sauce (Anchovy, Salt, Sugar), Rapeseed Oil, Lime Leaves, Lemongrass, Sugar, Thai Basil, Coriander, Red Chillies, Cumin, Coriander, Turmeric

Additives: E260 Acetic acid , E270 Lactic acid

As written on the pack

Water, British Chicken Thighs (8%), Coconut Cream (6%) (Coconut Extract, Water), Onions, Edamame Soybeans (2.5%), Green Beans, Cornflour, Rice Noodles (Rice Flour, Water), Garlic Purée, Ginger Purée, Green Curry Paste (1%) (Chillies, Lemongrass, Rapeseed Oil, Garlic Purée, Salt, Galangal, Lime Leaves, Ground Coriander, Ground Cumin, Ground Black Pepper, Turmeric, Chilli Extract, Garlic Extract, Preservative: Acetic Acid, Lactic Acid), Lime Juice, Soy Sauce (Water, Soybeans, Salt), Fish Sauce (Anchovy Extract (Fish), Salt, Sugar), Rapeseed Oil, Lime Leaves, Lemongrass, Sugar, Thai Basil, Coriander, Red Chillies, Ground Cumin, Ground Coriander, Turmeric

What makes it processed

Processed ingredients

Processed foods in their own right, such as cheese or milk powder.

  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.

Culinary ingredients

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

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

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 722 soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 270th. 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 00641128, last edited 21 September 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.