Is Pacific Foods Of Oregon Organic creamy tomato soup ultra-processed?

1 L Cream of tomato soups Sold in the United States and Canada

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Salt
Sugar
Cheese

15 ingredients
2 additives
Nutri-Score C

Less processed tomatoes and their products

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

Partially skimmed milk, Water, Tomato paste (tomatoes, citric acid), Cane sugar (processing marker), Sea salt (processing marker), Sodium citrate, Rice flour, Cheddar cheese flavour (cheddar cheese (processing marker), water, salt (processing marker)), Garlic, Onion

Additives: E330 Citric acid , E331 Sodium citrates

As written on the pack

Partially skimmed milk*, Water, Tomato paste (tomatoes*, citric acid)*, Cane sugar*, Sea salt, Sodium citrate, Rice flour*, Cheddar cheese flavour (cheddar cheese*, water, salt)*, Garlic powder*, Onion powder*.

What makes it processed

Processed ingredients

Processed foods in their own right, such as cheese or milk powder.

Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

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 8 cream of tomato soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2nd. 75% of the cream of 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 8 cream of tomato soups, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0052603054096, last edited 1 April 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 C (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.