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Is Progresso Chickpea & Noodle ultra-processed?

18.5 oz Canned vegetable soups Sold in the United States

Pack of Progresso Chickpea & Noodle

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:

  • 22 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Less processed canned vegetable soups

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, Chickpeas, Carrots, Curly Pasta (semolina wheat, egg, egg white), Celery, Soy Protein Isolate, Salt, Modified Food Starch, Soybean Oil, Potassium Chloride, Onion Powder, Tomato, Garlic Powder, Sugar, Spice, Parsley, Lecithin, Beta Carotene, ingredients

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin

As written on the pack

Water, Chickpeas, Carrots, Curly Pasta (semolina wheat, egg, egg white), Celery, Soy Protein Isolate, Salt, Modified Food Starch, Soybean Oil, Potassium Chloride, Onion Powder, Tomato Extract, Garlic Powder, Sugar, Spice, Dried Parsley, Lecithin, Beta Carotene. Contains egg, soy, and wheat ingredients.

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.

  • E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.
  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.
5 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.
  • 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 18 canned vegetable soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 13th. 56% of the canned 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 18 canned vegetable soups, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0041196133059, last edited 12 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 A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.