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Is Tesco Minestrone ultra-processed?

600 g Vegetable soups Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Tesco Minestrone

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:

  • 37 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score B

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

Vegetable Stock (Water, Sugar, Salt, Onion, Carrot Concentrate, Sunflower Oil, Cornflour, Leek, Celery, Garlic, Nutmeg Oil), Vegetables 30% (Potato, Carrot, Courgette, Onion, Green Bean), Tomato, Cooked Pasta 9% (Water, Durum Wheat Semolina), Cannellini Beans 6%, Tomato Purée, Tomato Juice, Rapeseed Oil, Garlic Purée, Potato Starch, Balsamic Vinegar (Vinegar, Grape Must, Grape Must), Salt, Oregano, Basil, Parsley, Black Pepper

As written on the pack

Vegetable Stock [Water, Sugar, Salt, Onion Concentrate, Carrot Concentrate, Sunflower Oil, Cornflour, Leek Concentrate, Celery Concentrate, Garlic Concentrate, Nutmeg Oil], Vegetables (30%) [Potato, Carrot. Courgette, Onion, Green Bean], Tomato, Cooked Pasta (9%) [Water, Durum Wheat Semolina], Cannellini Beans (6%), Tomato Purée, Tomato Juice, Rapeseed Oil, Garlic Purée, Potato Starch, Balsamic Vinegar [Vinegar, Grape Must Concentrate, Grape Must], Salt, Oregano, Basil, Parsley, Black Pepper.

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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

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 226 vegetable soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 89th. 52% of the vegetable 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 226 vegetable soups, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5050179966008, last edited 12 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.