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Is Rao's Vegetable Minestrone ultra-processed?

16 oz Minestrone soups Sold in the United States

Pack of Rao's Vegetable Minestrone

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:

  • 38 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

water, carrots, italian whole peeled tomatoes (tomatoes, tomato juice), celery, crushed tomatoes, onions, enriched ditalini pasta (durum semolina (wheat), egg whites, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), potatoes, zucchini, peas, green beans, corn starch, dark red kidney beans, sea salt, chickpeas, garlic, basil, potassium chloride, parmesan cheese (milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), fennel, parsley, black pepper, oregano, bay leaf

As written on the pack

water, carrots, italian whole peeled tomatoes (tomatoes, tomato juice), celery, crushed tomatoes, onions, enriched ditalini pasta (durum semolina [wheat], egg whites, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), potatoes, zucchini, peas, green beans, corn starch, dark red kidney beans, sea salt, chickpeas, garlic, basil, potassium chloride, parmesan cheese (milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), fennel, parsley, black pepper, oregano, bay leaf,

What makes it processed

Processed ingredients

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

  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

Culinary ingredients

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

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.

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 11 minestrone soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 4th. 55% of the minestrone 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 11 minestrone soups, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0747479400046, last edited 12 May 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.