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Is Waitrose Butternut squash & tarragon soup ultra-processed?

Cream soups Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Waitrose Butternut squash & tarragon 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:

  • 14 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Water, butternut squash 28%, carrot, onion, single cream, potato, butter, ginger, sugar, cornflour, garlic purée, salt, concentrated lemon juice, tarragon

As written on the pack

Water, butternut squash (28%), carrot, onion, single cream (milk) (6%), potato, butter (milk), ginger purée, sugar, cornflour, garlic purée, salt, concentrated lemon juice, tarragon

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 34 cream soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 4th. 62% of the cream 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 34 cream soups, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000169162309, last edited 15 September 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.