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Is Marks & Spencer Calabrian Mushroom & Truffle Soup ultra-processed?

560g Reheatable soups Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Marks & Spencer Calabrian Mushroom & Truffle 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
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score C

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Water, Mushrooms 31%, Single Cream, Butter, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Onions, Leeks, White Wine, cornflour, garlic, lemon Juice, Sea Salt, Mushroom Stock (Mushrooms, Water, Salt, Sugar, Rapeseed Oil, Mushrooms), Sugar, Porcini Mushrooms, Black Summer Truffle, Flavouring, Thickener (Xanthan Gum), Parsley, Black Pepper, Thyme

Additives: E415 Xanthan gum

As written on the pack

Water, Mushrooms (31%), Single Cream (Milk) (14%), Butter (milk), Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Onions, Leeks, White Wine (contains Sulphites), cornflour, garlic, lemon Juice, Sea Salt, Mushroom Stock (Concentrated Mushrooms, Water, Salt, Sugar, Rapeseed Oil, Mushrooms), Sugar, Porcini Mushrooms, Black Summer Truffle, Flavouring, Thickener: Xanthan Gum, Parsley, Ground Black Pepper, Thyme.

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.

  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
5 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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 85 reheatable soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 71st. 42% of the reheatable 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 85 reheatable soups, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 29286041, last edited 27 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.