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Is Specially Selected Thai Chicken Soup ultra-processed?

Soups Sold in the United Kingdom

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:

  • 50 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Water, Onion, Potato, chicken 8%, butternut squash 6%, Carrot, Mixed Peppers, Spinach, chopped vermicelli noodles 2% (Rice Flour, Water), creamed coconut 2%, Thai Style Green Curry Paste (Water, Salt, Rapeseed Oil, Onion, Spinach Powder, Garlic, Lime Juice from Concentrate, Jalapeño Pepper, Cumin, Ground Ginger, Lemongrass, Galangal, Coriander, Turmeric, Black Pepper), Ginger Purée Vegetable Stock (Salt, Potato Starch, Celeriac, Onion, Garlic, Lovage, Black Pepper, Mace, Nutmeg, Parsley, Tomato, Turmeric, Celery), Coriander Leaf, Lime Juice, Lemongrass, Garlic Purée, Red Chilli, Coriander, Lime Leaf, Cumin

As written on the pack

Water, Onion, Potato, COOKED CHICKEN (8%), BUTTERNUT SQUASH (6%), Carrot, Mixed Peppers, Spinach, CHOPPED VERMICELLI NOODLES (2%) (Rice Flour, Water), CREAMED COCONUT (2%), Thai Style Green Curry Paste (Water, Salt, Rapeseed Oil, Onion Juice Concentrate, Spinach Powder, Garlic Powder, Lime Juice from Concentrate, Jalapeño Pepper, Ground Cumin, Ground Ginger, Lemongrass, Galangal, Ground Coriander, Ground Turmeric, Ground Black Pepper), Ginger Purée Vegetable Stock (Salt, Potato Starch, Celeriac, Onion, Garlic, Lovage, Black Pepper, Mace, Nutmeg, Parsley, Tomato, Turmeric, Celery), Coriander Leaf, Lime Juice, Lemongrass, Garlic Purée, Red Chilli, Ground Coriander, Lime Leaf, Cumin Powder.

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.
  • Vegetable fat Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.

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 229th. 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 4061462739507, last edited 26 March 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • 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.