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Is Sainsbury's Sri Lankan coconut curry soup ultra-processed?

600g Soups Sold in the United Kingdom and the United States

Pack of Sainsbury's Sri Lankan coconut curry 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:

  • 31 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Water, Tomato 18%, Red Pepper 10%, Coconut Milk 8% (Coconut, Water), Potato, Onion, Butternut Squash 5%, Green Pepper 4%, Basmati Rice, Ginger, Tomato Purée, Garlic Purée, Demerara Sugar, Desiccated Coconut 1%, Rapeseed Oil, Coriander Leaf, Red Chilli, Salt, White Wine Vinegar, Cumin Seeds, Coriander, Fennel, Cinnamon, Cardamom, Turmeric, Curry, Clove, Fenugreek, Black Pepper

As written on the pack

Water, Tomato (18%), Red Pepper (10%), Coconut Milk (8%) (Coconut, Water), Potato, Onion, Butternut Squash (5%), Green Pepper (4%), Basmati Rice, Ginger Purée, Tomato Purée, Garlic Purée, Demerara Sugar, Desiccated Coconut (1%), Rapeseed Oil, Coriander Leaf, Red Chilli, Salt, White Wine Vinegar, Cumin Seeds, Coriander, Fennel Powder, Cinnamon, Cardamom, Turmeric, Curry Leaf, Clove Powder, Fenugreek, 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 722 soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 197th. 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 00377904, 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.