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Is Specially Selected Tomato & Lentil ultra-processed?

600 g Lentil soups Sold in the United Kingdom and Germany

Pack of Specially Selected Tomato & Lentil

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:

  • 25 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score A

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

tomato 41% (Tomato, Tomato Juice), Water, Onion, Potato, red lentils 4.5%, Carrot, Red Pepper, Spinach, green lentils 1.5%, Garlic Purée, Tomato Paste, Sugar, Rapeseed Oil, Cornflour, Salt, Coriander, Cumin, Coriander Leaf, Red Chilli, Turmeric, Fenugreek, Nutmeg, White Pepper

As written on the pack

TOMATO (41%) (Tomato, Concentrated Tomato Juice), Water, Onion, Potato, RED LENTILS (4.5%), Carrot, Red Pepper, Spinach, GREEN LENTILS (1.5%), Garlic Purée, Tomato Paste, Sugar, Rapeseed Oil, Cornflour, Salt, Ground Coriander, Cumin Powder, Coriander Leaf, Red Chilli, Ground Turmeric, Ground Fenugreek, Nutmeg, White Pepper. DIETARY ADVICE: Suitable for vegans

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 23 lentil soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 8th. 30% of the lentil 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 23 lentil soups, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4061462616754, last edited 28 July 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.