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Is Tesco Garden Pea & Wiltshire Cured Ham soup ultra-processed?

600g Microwave meals Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Tesco Garden Pea & Wiltshire Cured Ham 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
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score B

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Ham stock (water concentrated juices of pork meat (ham, water, bacon, pork fat, pork), salt, sugar, cornflour, onion, herb oil, spice oil), garden peas 34%, potato, cured ham hock 5% (pork, salt, curing salt (sodium nitrite)), onion, crème fraîche, cornflour, butter, sea salt, parsley, white pepper, mint

Additives: E250 Sodium nitrite

As written on the pack

Ham stock (water concentrated juices of pork meat (ham, water, bacon, pork fat, pork extract), salt, sugar, cornflour, onion concentrate, herb oil, spice oil), garden peas 34%, potato, cured ham hock 5% (pork, salt, curing salt (sodium nitrite)), onion, crème fraîche, cornflour, butter, sea salt, parsley, white pepper, mint,

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

Preservation and traditional processing

Keep food safe or ferment it, like preservatives and cultures. A sign of processing, not ultra-processing.

  • E250 Sodium nitrite Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.

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 351 microwave meals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 83rd. 72% of the microwave meals 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 351 microwave meals, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000358399073, last edited 24 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.