Is Pacific Foods Organic Roasted Red Pepper & Tomato Soup ultra-processed?

946 mL Vegetable soups Sold in the United States

Pack of Pacific Foods Organic Roasted Red Pepper & 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:

  • 15 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score C

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

Reduced fat milk, water, tomato paste, red bell peppers, cane sugar (processing marker), red bell peppers, garlic, sea salt (processing marker), butter (processing marker), sodium citrate, non-fat dry milk (processing marker), rice flour, garlic powder, onion powder, spices

Additives: E331 Sodium citrates

As written on the pack

Reduced fat milk*, water, tomato paste*, red bell peppers*, cane sugar*, roasted red bell peppers*, roasted garlic*, sea salt, butter*, sodium citrate, non-fat dry milk*, rice flour*, garlic powder*, onion powder*, spices*.

What makes it processed

Processed ingredients

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

  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

Culinary ingredients

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

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • 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 226 vegetable soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 98th. 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 0052603041843, last edited 29 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.
  • 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.