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Is Progresso Vegetable Classics Tuscan-Style White Bean Soup ultra-processed?

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Pack of Progresso Vegetable Classics Tuscan-Style White Bean 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:

  • 30 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score A

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Water, great northern beans, carrots, tomatoes, tomato paste, contains less than 2% of (onions), spinach, modified food starch, parmesan cheese (part skim milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), salt, garlic, basil, sugar, olive oil, onion, garlic, fennel seed, spice, yeast extract, whey, natural flavor, tomato, calcium chloride, citric acid, raisin juice concentrate

Additives: E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Water, great northern beans, carrots, tomatoes, tomato paste. contains less than 2% of: onions, spinach, modified food starch, dried parmesan cheese (part skim milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), salt, garlic, basil, sugar, olive oil, onion powder, garlic powder, fennel seed, spice, yeast extract, fermented whey, natural flavor, tomato powder, calcium chloride, citric acid, raisin juice concentrate.

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.

  • Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
8 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.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
  • Microbial culture Microbial cultures ferment foods such as yoghurt, cheese and sourdough.
  • Enzyme Enzymes carry out traditional processes such as cheese making and baking.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 722 soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 491st. 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 0041196486742, last edited 30 August 2025), 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.