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Is Marks & Spencers Creamy vegetable soup in a cup ultra-processed?

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Pack of Marks & Spencers Creamy vegetable soup in a cup

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:

  • 18 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

Potato Starch Maltodextrin Vegetable Powders 12% (Onion Pea Carrot), Natural Flavourings (contain Wheat, Barley, Gluten), Croutons 11% (Palm Oil Salt Yeast, mins Antioxidant (Extracts of Rosemary)), Palm Oil Dried Vegetables (Peas Carrot), Salt Dried Whey, Lactose, Milk Protein Ground Black Pepper Dried 08g ving Parsley, Natural Colour (Curcumin, 349)

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E349 Ammonium malate

As written on the pack

Potato Starch Maltodextrin Vegetable Powders (12%) (Onion Pea Carrot) Natural Flavourings (contain Wheat, Barley, Gluten) Croutons (11%) (Wheatflour contains Gluten (with Wheatflour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin) - Palm Oil Salt Yeast - - mins Antioxidant: Extracts of Rosemary) Palm Oil Dried Vegetables (Peas Carrot) Salt Dried Whey (Milk), Lactose (Milk) - Milk Protein Ground Black Pepper Dried 08g ving Parsley - Natural Colour: Curcumin. 349

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.

  • E100 Curcumin 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.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

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.

  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
1 ingredient 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 722 soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 599th. 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 29410316, last edited 25 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.
  • 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.