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Is Simple Truth Organic Vegetable Broth ultra-processed?

32 oz Vegetable broths Sold in the United States

Pack of Simple Truth Organic Vegetable Broth

Yes, it's ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 18 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Less processed vegetable broths

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, vegetables, celery, carrot, vegetable juice, celery, onion, carrot, cane sugar, tomato paste, sea salt, dextrose, molasses, yeast extract, pear juice concentrate, turmeric, flavoring, onion powder

As written on the pack

water, organic vegetables, organic celery, organic carrot, organic vegetable juice concentrates, organic celery, organic onion, organic carrot, organic cane sugar, organic tomato paste, sea salt, organic dextrose, organic molasses, yeast extract, organic pear juice concentrate, organic turmeric, organic flavoring, organic onion powder

What makes it ultra-processed

Cosmetic additives

Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

Substances rarely used in home kitchens

Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Fruit juice concentrate An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
3 ingredients that would only make it processed

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

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 60 vegetable broths

From least to most processed, this one ranks 47th. 65% of the vegetable broths 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 60 vegetable broths, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0011110086020, last edited 3 October 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.