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Is Progresso Italian-Style Wedding ultra-processed?

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Pack of Progresso Italian-Style Wedding

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:

  • 49 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score B

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Chicken broth, cooked tubetti pasta (water, semolina wheat, egg white), fully cooked meatballs (pork, beef, water, textured soy protein, soy protein, romano cheese (cow's milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), bread crumbs (wheat flour, dextrose, salt, yeast), corn syrup, onions, salt, sodium phosphate, spices, garlic powder, parsley, natural flavor), carrots, spinach, contains less than 2% of (onions), modified food starch, corn protein (hydrolyzed), salt, carrot puree, potassium chloride, onion powder, sugar, tomato, spice, garlic powder, maltodextrin, flavoring, natural flavor, beta carotene (color)

As written on the pack

Chicken broth, cooked tubetti pasta (water, semolina wheat, egg white), fully cooked meatballs (pork, beef, water, textured soy protein concentrate, soy protein concentrate, romano cheese [pasteurized part-skim cow's milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes], bread crumbs [bleached wheat flour, dextrose, salt, yeast], corn syrup, onions, salt, sodium phosphate, spices, garlic powder, parsley, natural flavor), carrots, spinach. contains less than 2% of: onions, modified food starch, corn protein (hydrolyzed), salt, carrot puree, potassium chloride, onion powder, sugar, tomato extract, spice, garlic powder, maltodextrin, flavoring, natural flavor, beta carotene (color).

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.

  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • 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.

Substances rarely used in home kitchens

Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down 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.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 722 soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 629th. 63% of the 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.

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About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0041196915051, last edited 2 August 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.