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Is Marks & Spencers Chunky Chicken Chorizo & Rice Soup ultra-processed?

600g Chicken soups Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Marks & Spencers Chunky Chicken Chorizo & Rice 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:

  • 39 ingredients
  • 3 additives

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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

Roast Chicken Stock (Water Yeast Extract Chicken Bones, Chicken Fat Salt Carrots Onions, Tomato Paste Bay Leaves Thyme), Tomatoes British Chicken Thighs 7%, White Wine, Red Peppers, Peas, Risotto Rice 3.5%, Cornflour, Onions, Rapeseed Oil, Celery, Chorizo Pork Sausage 1% (Pork 0.91%, Water, Curing Salt (Salt, Preservative (Sodium Nitrite), Potassium Nitrate), Paprika, Dried Whole Milk, Dextrose, Antioxidant (e301), Nutmeg, Dried Oregano), Spices (Smoked Paprika, Turmeric, Bay, Cayenne, Black Pepper, Fennel), Salt, Parsley, Garlic Purée, Red Chilli Peppers

Additives: E250 Sodium nitrite , E252 Potassium nitrate , E301 Sodium ascorbate

As written on the pack

Roast Chicken Stock (Water Yeast Extract Chicken Bones, Chicken Fat Salt Carrots Onions, Tomato Paste Bay Leaves Thyme), Tomatoes British Chicken Thighs (7%), White Wine, Red Peppers, Peas, Risotto Rice (3.5%), Cornflour, Onions, Rapeseed Oil, Celery, Chorizo Pork Sausage (1%) (Pork (91%), Water, Curing Salt (Salt, Preservative: Sodium Nitrite, Potassium Nitrate), Ground Paprika, Dried Whole Milk, Dextrose, Antioxidant: E301, Ground Nutmeg, Dried Oregano), Ground Spices (Smoked Paprika, Turmeric, Bay, Cayenne, Black Pepper, Fennel), Salt, Parsley, Garlic Purée, Red Chilli Peppers

What makes it ultra-processed

Substances rarely used in home kitchens

Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
6 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.

  • 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.
  • E252 Potassium nitrate 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.
  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 15 chicken soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 9th. 60% of the chicken 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 15 chicken soups, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00564762, last edited 14 May 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.