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Is Sainsbury's Taste The Difference Carrot & Honey Roast Parsnip Soup ultra-processed?

Vegetable soups Sold in the United Kingdom and the United States

Pack of Sainsbury's Taste The Difference Carrot & Honey Roast Parsnip 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:

  • 29 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score C

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

Water, Chantenay Carrot 19%, Carrot 13%, Onion, Honey Past Parsnips 3.6%, Parsnip, Honey, Vegetable Oil (Vegetable Oil (Sunflower Rapeseed Vegetable Oil)), Salt, Black Pepper, British Single Cream (Cows Milk), British Butter, Cows Wilk, Honey, Ginger, Cornflour, Salt, Garlic Purée, Thyme, White Pepper Allspice, Rosemary, Cinnamon, Nutmeg, !! B 349 10.2g 4.59 C 90g 2% 50g 6ig Allergy advice, see ingredients in bold Half of a pot counts as 1 of your 5 a-day (Aim for at least 5 different portions of fruit and veg adau e323 751057)

Additives: E323 Anoxomer

As written on the pack

Water, Chantenay Carrot (19%), Carrot (13%), Onion, Honey Past Parsnips (3.6%) (Parsnip, Honey, Vegetable Oil (Sunflower Rapeseed Salt, Black Pepper), British Single Cream (Cows Milk), British Butter (Cows Wilk, Honey, Ginger Purée, Cornflour, Salt, Garlic Purée, Thyme, White Pepper Allspice, Rosemary, Cinnamon, Nutmeg. !! B 349 10.2g 4.59 C 90g 2% 50g 6ig Allergy advice: For allergens, see ingredients in bold Half of a pot counts as 1 of your 5 a-day: Aim for at least 5 different portions of fruit or veg adau E 323 751057

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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

  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

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 103rd. 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 01800074, last edited 5 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.