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Is New Covent Garden Soup Co Creamy tomato Soup ultra-processed?

2 x 280 g Tomato soups Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of New Covent Garden Soup Co Creamy tomato Soup

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 12 ingredients
  • No additives

Less processed fruits and vegetables based foods

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, tomato 36%, onion, tomato juice 6%, double cream, tomato paste 3%, sugar, rapeseed oil, cornflour, salt, garlic puree, black pepper

As written on the pack

Water, tomato (36%), onion, concentrated tomato juice (6%), double cream (milk) (4%), tomato paste (3%), sugar, rapeseed oil, cornflour, salt, garlic puree, black pepper.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 31 tomato soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2nd. 61% of the tomato 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 31 tomato soups, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5056053307684, last edited 1 July 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.