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Is Morrisons Spicy tomato, red pepper and lentil soup ultra-processed?

Vegetable soups Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Morrisons Spicy tomato, red pepper and lentil 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:

  • 36 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score B

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

600ge Tomato 38%, Water, Red lentils 10%, Onior, Red pepper 6%, Rapeseed oil Tomato paste, Sugar, Salt, Cornflour, Garlic purée, Chipotle peppers, Parsley, Smoked paprika, Maltodextrin, Potato starch, Yeast extract, Acid, acetic acid Onion powder, Parsnip, Parsley fla'kes, Lovage, Anti-caking agent (silicon dioxide), Sunflower oil, Lovage, turmeric, white pepper, Garlic, mace, nutmeg, Made to a recipe in a food preparation area that uses non- ingredients, Nutrition Typical values (as consumed), per 100g per 1, 2 pack, Energy 316kJ

Additives: E551 Silicon dioxide

As written on the pack

600ge Tomato (38%), Water, Red lentils (10%), Onior, Red pepper (6%), Rapeseed oil Tomato paste, Sugar, Salt, Cornflour, Garlic purée, Chipotle peppers, Parsley, Smoked paprika, Maltodextrin, Potato starch, Yeast extract, Acid (acetic acid Onion powder, Parsnip powder, Parsley fla'kes, Lovage extract, Anti-caking agent (silicon dioxide), Sunflower oil, Lovage powder, Ground turmeric, Ground white pepper, Garlic powder, Ground mace, Ground nutmeg. Made to a vegan recipe in a food preparation area that uses non-vegan ingredients. Nutrition Typical values (as consumed) per 100g per 1/2 pack (300g) Energy 316kJ/

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.

  • E551 Silicon dioxide A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.

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.

  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
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.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Anti-caking agent Anti-caking agents are substances which reduce the tendency of individual particles of a foodstuff to adhere to one another.
  • 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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 226 vegetable soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 171st. 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 5010525281506, 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.
  • 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.