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Is Sainsbury's Spicy tomato, lentil and red pepper soup ultra-processed?

600g Vegetable soups Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsbury's Spicy tomato, lentil and red pepper 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:

  • 25 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Less processed fruits and vegetables based foods

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Tomato 38%, Water, Red Lentils 10%, Onion, Red Pepper 6%, Chipotle Chilli Paste (Sugar, Red Pepper, Molasses, Tomato Purée, Water, Salt, Chipotle Chilli, Smoked Paprika, Jalapeño Pepper, Onion Extract, White Wine Vinegar, Garlic Extract), Tomato Purée, Rapeseed Oil, Cornflour, Sugar, Garlic Puree, Salt, Parsley

As written on the pack

Tomato 38%, Water, Red Split Lentils 10%, Onion, Red Pepper 6%, Chipotle Chilli Paste (Sugar, Red Pepper Juice, Molasses, Tomato Purée, Water, Salt, Chipotle Chilli, Smoked Paprika, Jalapeño Pepper, Onion Extract, White Wine Vinegar, Garlic Extract), Tomato Purée, Rapeseed Oil, Cornflour, Sugar, Garlic Puree, Salt, Parsley.

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 226 vegetable soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 68th. 52% of the vegetable 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 226 vegetable soups, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 01498257, last edited 27 March 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 A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.