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Is M&S Food Minestrone Soup with Bacon ultra-processed?

600 g Vegetable soups Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of M&S Food Minestrone Soup with Bacon

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:

  • 38 ingredients
  • 2 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

Tomatoes 35%, Roast Chicken Stock (Water, Yeast Extract, Chicken Bones, Chicken Fat, Salt, Carrots, Onions, Tomato Paste, Bay Leaves, Thyme), Borlotti Beans, Onions, Carrots, Celery, Smoked British Bacon 4% (Pork 90%, Water, Curing Salt (Salt Preservative (Sodium Nitrite)), e301), Courgette, Rigatini Pasta 3% (Durum Wheat Semolina, Water), Leeks, Tomato Purée, Red Wine, Garlic Purée, Sugar, Olive Oil, Salt, Basil, Parsley, Black Pepper, Bay Leaves

Additives: E250 Sodium nitrite , E301 Sodium ascorbate

As written on the pack

Tomatoes (35%), Roast Chicken Stock (Water, Yeast Extract, Chicken Bones, Chicken Fat, Salt, Carrots, Onions, Tomato Paste, Bay Leaves, Thyme), Borlotti Beans, Onions, Carrots, Celery, Smoked British Bacon (4%) (Pork (90%), Water, Curing Salt (Salt Preservative: Sodium Nitrite), Antioxidant: E301), Courgette, Rigatini Pasta (3%) (Durum Wheat Semolina (contains Gluten), Water), Leeks, Tomato Purée, Red Wine, Garlic Purée, Sugar, Olive Oil, Salt, Basil, Parsley, Ground Black Pepper, Ground Bay Leaves

What makes it processed

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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

Preservation and traditional processing

Keep food safe or ferment it, like preservatives and cultures. A sign of processing, not ultra-processing.

  • E250 Sodium nitrite Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.

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 109th. 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 00242905, last edited 14 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.