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Is Waitrose Tomato Soup ultra-processed?

600 g Tomato soups Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Waitrose Tomato 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:

  • 16 ingredients
  • No additives
  • 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

Water, tomato 24%, single cream, carrot, onion, tomato purée, sugar, cornflour, sherry vinegar, rapeseed oil, salt, paprika, smoked paprika, white pepper ALLERGY ADVICE (NUTRITION TYPICAL VALUES AS PREPARED Energy k thergy kcal to PER PER 100g 1, 2 pot l 239 57 2.99)

As written on the pack

Water, tomato (24%), single cream (milk) (9%), carrot, onion, tomato purée, sugar, cornflour, sherry vinegar, rapeseed oil, salt, paprika, smoked paprika, white pepper ALLERGY ADVICE: For allergens see ingredients in bold. NUTRITION TYPICAL VALUES AS PREPARED Energy k thergy kcal to PER PER 100g 1/2 POT L 239 57 2.99

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.

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 31 tomato soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 6th. 61% of the tomato 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 31 tomato soups, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000169661420, 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.