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Is Tesco Chicken & Vegetable Soup ultra-processed?

600 g Chicken and vegetables soup Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Tesco Chicken & Vegetable 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:

  • 26 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Chicken Stock (Water, Chicken, Chicken, Sugar, Salt, Cornflour, Chicken Fat, Onion), Vegetables 30% (Carrot, Swede, Onion, Potato, Parsnip, Leek, Celery), Chicken Breast 5%, Potato Starch, Pearl Barley, Garlic Purée, Salt, Rapeseed Oil, Sage, Thyme, Made using chicken

As written on the pack

Chicken Stock [Water, Chicken Extract, Chicken, Sugar, Salt, Cornflour, Chicken Fat, Onion Concentrate], Vegetables (30%) [Carrot, Swede, Onion, Potato, Parsnip, Leek, Celery], Chicken Breast (5%), Potato Starch, Pearl Barley, Garlic Purée, Salt, Rapeseed Oil, Sage, Thyme. Made using chicken from Thailand.

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.
  • 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 12 chicken and vegetables soup

From least to most processed, this one ranks 3rd. 42% of the chicken and vegetables soup 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 12 chicken and vegetables soup, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5054775144686, 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.