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Is Trader Joe's Organic Tomato & Roasted Red Pepper Soup ultra-processed?

32 fl oz Vegetable soups Sold in the United States

Pack of Trader Joe's Organic Tomato & Roasted Red Pepper 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:

  • 17 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score C

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

reduced fat milk, filter water, tomato paste, cane sweetener (sugar), roasted red pepper flavor (red peppers, sea salt, butter), garlic, red peppers, sea salt, sodium citrate, rice flour, garlic, onion, spices

Additives: E331 Sodium citrates

As written on the pack

Organic reduced fat milk, filter water, organic tomato paste, organic cane sweetener (sugar), organic roasted red pepper flavor (organic red peppers, sea salt, organic butter), organic roasted garlic, organic roasted red peppers, sea salt, sodium citrate, organic rice flour, organic garlic powder, organic onion powder, organic spices.

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.

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 100th. 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 00578790, last edited 8 May 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.