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Is Sainsbury's Minestrone ultra-processed?

Minestrone soups Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsbury's 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:

  • 20 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Water, Tomato 20%, Onion, Tomato Purée, Pinto Beans 4.5%, Potato 4%, Courgette 3%, Red Pepper 2.5%, Pasta 2.5% (Durum Wheat Semolina, Water), Sugar, Rapeseed Oil, Cornflour, Salt, Basil, Garlic Purée, Oregano, Smoked Paprika, Black Pepper

As written on the pack

Water, Tomato (20%), Onion, Tomato Purée, Pinto Beans (4.5%), Potato (4%), Courgette (3%), Red Pepper (2.5%), Pasta (2.5%) (Durum Wheat Semolina, Water), Sugar, Rapeseed Oil, Cornflour, Salt, Basil, Garlic Purée, Oregano, Smoked Paprika, Black Pepper.

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 11 minestrone soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1st. 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 01016369, last edited 28 April 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.