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Is Sainsbury's coconut laksa soup ultra-processed?

Reheatable soups Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsbury's coconut laksa soup

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:

  • 26 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Water, Coconut Milk 9% (Coconut, Water), Potato, Onion, Savoy Cabbage 5%, Red Pepper, Beansprout 3.5%, Carrot, Rice Noodles 25% (Rice Flour, Water), Garlic Purée 2.5%, Ginger, Cornflour, Red Chilli 1.5%, Sugar, Rapeseed Oil, Coriander Leaf, Lime Juice, Salt, Lemon Grass, Curry, Lime Leaf, Turmeric

As written on the pack

Water, Coconut Milk (9%) (Coconut, Water), Potato (Sulphites) Onion, Savoy Cabbage (5%), Red Pepper, Beansprout (3.5%), Carrot, Rice Noodles (25%) (Rice Flour (Sulphites), Water), Garlic Purée (2.5%), Ginger, Cornflour (Sulphites), Red Chilli (1.5%), Sugar (Sulphites), Rapeseed Oil, Coriander Leaf, Lime Juice, Salt, Lemon Grass, Curry Leaf, Lime Leaf, Ground Turmeric.

What makes it processed

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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

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 85 reheatable soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 21st. 42% of the reheatable 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 85 reheatable soups, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00515467, last edited 13 July 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.