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Is Sainsbury's Vegetable laksa soup ultra-processed?

400g Soups Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsbury's Vegetable 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:

  • 28 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Water, Cooked Rice 10%, Onion 10%, Green Beans 5%, Maize Starch, Desiccated Coconut, Spinach, Lime Leaf, Garlic Purée, Ginger, Coriander, Salt, Carrot Juice, Lemon Grass, Coriander Seed, Turmeric, Coriander, Chilli Purée, Mushroom, Onion, Chilli, Onion Extract, Cumin Seed, Garlic, Fennel Seed, Chilli, White Pepper, Black Pepper

As written on the pack

Water, Cooked Rice (10%), Onion (10%), Green Beans (5%), Maize Starch, Desiccated Coconut, Spinach, Lime Leaf, Garlic Purée, Ginger Purée, Coriander, Salt, Carrot Juice, Lemon Grass, Coriander Seed, Turmeric, Coriander Powder, Chilli Purée, Mushroom Concentrate, Onion Powder, Chilli Flakes, Onion Extract, Cumin Seed, Garlic Powder, Fennel Seed, Chilli Powder, White Pepper, 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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.

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 185th. 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 00432597, 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.