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Is Morrisons Scotch Broth ultra-processed?

400 g Canned vegetable soups Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Morrisons Scotch Broth

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:

  • 32 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Less processed canned vegetable 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

Water, Vegetables 25% (carrot, onion, potato, garden peas, swede), Pearl barley 5%, Mutton 4%, Modified maize starch, Wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), Rapeseed oil, Salt, cabbage, Flavourings (contain celery, milk), Sugar, Dried glucose syrup, Onion powder, Lamb, Leek, Garlic powder, Black pepper, Rosemary extract, Bay colour (carotenes)

Additives: E160a Carotene , E392 Extracts of rosemary

As written on the pack

Water, Vegetables (carrot, onion, potato, garden peas, swede) 25%, Pearl barley 5%, Mutton 4%, Modified maize starch, Wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), Rapeseed oil, Salt, Dried cabbage, Flavourings (contain celery, milk), Sugar, Dried glucose syrup, Onion powder, Lamb powder, Leek powder, Garlic powder, Black pepper, Rosemary extract, Bay colour (carotenes).

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.

  • E160a Carotene Carotenes are orange-yellow pigments, either synthesised or extracted from carrots, algae or palm oil.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.

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.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
4 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.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 18 canned vegetable soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 18th. 56% of the canned 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 18 canned vegetable soups, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5010251476689, last edited 28 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.