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Is Waitrose Vine Ripened Tomato & Basil soup ultra-processed?

600g Vegetable soups Sold in the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates

Pack of Waitrose Vine Ripened Tomato & Basil 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:

  • 20 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score B

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

Tomato 46%, water, tomato juice, carrot, onion, basil, sugar, garlic purée, rapeseed oil, salt, yeast extract powder, onion, leek, black pepper, cornflour, carrot extract, sunflower oil, parsnip, lovage, white pepper

As written on the pack

Tomato (46%), water, tomato juice, carrot, onion, basil, sugar, garlic purée, rapeseed oil, salt, yeast extract powder, roasted onion purée, leek powder, black pepper, cornflour, carrot extract, sunflower oil, parsnip extract, lovage, white 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.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

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 226 vegetable soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 56th. 52% of the vegetable 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 226 vegetable soups, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000169605141, 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.