Classic Scottish Broth Soup
Processing
4
Ultra-processed
Group 4 of 4 on the NOVA scale
Additives listed
2
0 we grade moderate or higher
1 of them not yet assessed here
Salt per 100g
0.40g
Medium
UK FSA front of pack threshold
Three separate readings, kept apart on purpose. This is not a score, and none of it says this product is harmful.
Additives (2)
This label lists 1 antioxidant and 1 colour.
E160A
Carotenes
Yellow to orange colour
What it is. The orange pigments found in carrots and other vegetables, either extracted or made synthetically.
Why it is used. Colours margarine, soft drinks, dairy, and sweets.
What the evidence says. The same compound the body turns into vitamin A, and safe at the levels used in food. High dose beta-carotene supplements have been linked to harm in smokers, but those doses are far above anything a colour in food delivers, and conflating the two is a common mistake.
Permitted. The supplement findings apply to concentrated doses, not to food colouring.
Assessed against EFSA, JECFA. Full entry for E160A
Also on the label, not assessed here yet
- E392 Extracts of rosemary antioxidant
Names and jobs come from the register of additives permitted in Great Britain, which we have not finished transcribing: a code shown without a name is a gap in our coverage, not a finding that it is unapproved. Naming one is not grading it either. Full detail appears only where we have an assessment against a named authority, so all of this describes our coverage rather than these additives. Most are common and low concern.
Ingredients
400g water, vegetables (25%) (carrot, onion, potato, garden peas, swede), pea barley (5%), mutton (4%), modified maize starch, fortified wheat flour (wheat flour, iron, thiamin, nicotinic acid, calcium carbonate), rapeseed of salt, mutton fat, dried cabbage, flavourings (contain celery, milk), sugar dried glucose syrup, onion powder, lamb powder, leek powder, garlic powder, black pepper, rosemary extract, bay, colour (carotenes). !allergy advice for allergens, including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients in bold nutrition typical values (as consumed) per 100g per 1/2 can (20 energy 38993 195kj/
As printed on the pack, in the producer's own order: ingredients are listed by weight, so what comes first is most of what is in it. E numbers link to their assessment where we have one.