Is Waitrose Hearty chicken & vegetable broth ultra-processed?
It's processed, but not ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Whole foods combined with:
- 19 ingredients
- No additives
- Nutri-Score B
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Water, vegetables 32% (onion, carrot, potato, white cabbage, peas, spinach, celery), chicken 6%, potato starch (processing marker), chicken, yeast extract powder, rapeseed oil, salt (processing marker), garlic purée, potato, chicken fat, black pepper
As written on the pack
Water, vegetables (32%) (onion, carrot, potato, white cabbage, peas, spinach, celery), cooked chicken (6%), potato starch, chicken extract, yeast extract powder, rapeseed oil, salt, garlic purée, dried potato, chicken fat, 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.
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.
Among 85 reheatable soups
From least to most processed, this one ranks 11th. 42% of the reheatable soups here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000169605202, 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.