Is Pacific Foods Organic Chicken & Wild Rice Soup ultra-processed?

16.3 oz Canned soups Sold in the United States

Pack of Pacific Foods Organic Chicken & Wild Rice 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:

  • 16 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

chicken stock, onions, carrots, celery, chicken (chicken meat, water, cornstarch (processing marker), sea salt (processing marker)), brown rice, wild rice, cornstarch (processing marker), chicken fat, sea salt (processing marker), garlic, spices

As written on the pack

CHICKEN STOCK*, ONIONS*, CARROTS*, CELERY*, DICED CHICKEN (CHICKEN MEAT*, WATER, CORNSTARCH*, SEA SALT), BROWN RICE*, WILD RICE*, CORNSTARCH*, CHICKEN FAT*, SEA SALT, GARLIC*, SPICES*. *Organic

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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.

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 190 canned soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 30th. 68% of the canned 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 190 canned soups, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0052603283670, last edited 20 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.