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Is Progresso Traditional Split Pea with Ham Soup ultra-processed?

538g Soups Sold in the United States

Pack of Progresso Traditional Split Pea with Ham Soup

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:

  • 33 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score B

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Water, split peas, cooked ham water added (with water, salt, dextrose, sodium phosphate, natural smoke flavor, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite), carrots, potatoes, peas, celery, contains less than 2% of (modified food starch), carrot puree, salt, onion, corn, soy protein (hydrolyzed), sugar, parsley, yeast extract, spice, natural flavor, garlic, onion, natural smoke flavor, maltodextrin, torula yeast, yeast

Additives: E250 Sodium nitrite , E316 Sodium erythorbate

As written on the pack

Water, split peas, cooked ham water added (cured with water, salt, dextrose, sodium phosphate, natural smoke flavor, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite), carrots, potatoes, dried peas, celery. contains less than 2% of: modified food starch, carrot puree, salt, onion, corn and soy protein (hydrolyzed), sugar, dried parsley, yeast extract, spice, natural flavor, garlic powder, onion powder, natural smoke flavor, maltodextrin, torula yeast, dried yeast.

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.

  • 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.

  • E250 Sodium nitrite Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 722 soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 609th. 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.

All 722 soups, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0041196010954, last edited 25 January 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.