Is Waitrose spicy chicken jambalaya soup ultra-processed?

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It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Salt
Sugar

24 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score A

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Water, tomato, onion, tomato juice, chicken 6%, celery, green pepper, red pepper, rice 3%, tomato purée, ginger, garlic purée, spices, chicken, yeast extract powder, sugar (processing marker), rapeseed oil, cornflour, lemon juice, salt (processing marker), thyme, coriander leaf, potato, chicken fat

As written on the pack

Water, tomato, onion, tomato juice, cooked chicken (6%), celery, green pepper, red pepper, rice (3%), tomato purée, ginger purée, garlic purée, spices, chicken extract, yeast extract powder, sugar, rapeseed oil, cornflour, lemon juice, salt, thyme, coriander leaf, dried potato, chicken fat

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.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000169205969, 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 A (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.