Is Waitrose Hearty chicken multigrain soup ultra-processed?
It's processed, but not ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Whole foods combined with:
- 26 ingredients
- No additives
- Nutri-Score C
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Water, carrot, onion, tomato, chicken 5%, tomato juice, celery, leeks, pearl barley, yellow split peas, brown rice, rapeseed oil, red lentils, cornflour, chicken, yeast extract powder, red rice, garlic purée, parsley, salt (processing marker), wild rice, potato, chicken fat, oregano, black pepper, thyme
As written on the pack
Water, carrot, onion, tomato, cooked chicken (5%), tomato juice, celery, leeks, pearl barley, yellow split peas, brown rice, rapeseed oil, red lentils, cornflour, chicken extract, yeast extract powder, red rice, garlic purée, parsley, salt, wild rice, dried potato, chicken fat, oregano, black pepper, thyme
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.
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 722 soups
From least to most processed, this one ranks 175th. 63% of the soups here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000169605219, last edited 26 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 C (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.