Minestrone

How it scored 60 / 100

Nutrition snapshot

Ingredients 32 listed

• 1 Water
  Water intended for human consumption; the most common ingredient in processed foods and beverages. Bottled water is regulated as a food unde…
  Safe
• 2 Tomato Concentrate
  Concentrated tomato product made by removing water from tomato juice/pulp; includes paste and puree.
  Safe
• 3 Carrot
  Edible taproot of the Daucus carota plant.
  Safe
• 4 Celery
  Celery (Apium graveolens) is a marshland plant used as a vegetable.
  Low
• 5 Kidney Bean
  Mature seeds of Phaseolus vulgaris, named for their kidney shape. Available dry, canned, or cooked.
  Safe
• 6 Potato
  Edible tuber of the Solanum tuberosum plant.
  Safe
• 7 Green Bean
  Whole vegetable; immature pods of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris).
  Safe
• 8 Pea
  Pea (Pisum sativum), a legume seed.
  Safe
• 9 Penne
  Tubular pasta cut at an angle, typically made from durum wheat semolina.
  Low
• 10 Spinach
  Leafy green vegetable (Spinacia oleracea).
  Safe
• 11 Modified Starch
  Starch from corn, potato, tapioca, wheat, or rice that has been physically, enzymatically, or chemically modified (E1400-E1452) to improve c…
  Low
• 12 Salt
  Sodium chloride (NaCl), a crystalline mineral compound composed of roughly 40% sodium and 60% chloride by mass.
  Low
• 13 Soya Oil
  Vegetable oil extracted from soybeans (Glycine max), typically refined, bleached, and deodorized. High in polyunsaturated fats, particularly…
  Low
• 14 Sugar
  Sucrose, a disaccharide of glucose and fructose, refined from sugarcane or sugar beets.
  Moderate
• 15 Potassium Chloride
  Potassium chloride (KCl), an inorganic salt commonly used as a low-sodium salt substitute and nutrient.
  Low
• 16 Hydrolysed Corn Protein
  Corn protein broken down into smaller peptides and amino acids by acid or enzymatic hydrolysis.
  Low
• 17 Tomato
  Fruit of the Solanum lycopersicum plant.
  Safe
• 18 Spice
  A regulatory category (21 CFR 101.22) for aromatic vegetable substances used primarily for seasoning. Excludes onion, garlic, and celery, wh…
  Moderate
• 19 Parsley
  Parsley is a culinary herb (Petroselinum crispum).
  Safe
• 20 Natural Flavouring
  A regulatory umbrella term (21 CFR 101.22) for flavor extracts derived from spices, fruit, vegetable, herb, bark, root, leaf, meat, seafood,…
  Low
• 21 Maltodextrin
  A short-chain glucose polymer (3–20 glucose units, DE 3–20) produced by partial enzymatic or acid hydrolysis of corn, potato, rice, or wheat…
  Moderate
• 22 Skimmed Milk
  Cow's milk from which most milkfat has been removed. FDA standard of identity for nonfat milk requires <0.5% milkfat; for nonfat dry milk, <…
  Safe
• 23 Citric Acid
  Citric acid (E330), a weak organic acid naturally present in citrus fruit and produced commercially via Aspergillus niger fermentation.
  Low
• 24 Garlic
  Allium sativum, a bulbous plant whose cloves are rich in organosulfur compounds — most notably allicin (formed when garlic is crushed) — plu…
  Safe
• 25 Olive Oil
  Oil pressed from olives (Olea europaea).
  Safe
• 26 Turmeric
  Ground rhizome of the Curcuma longa plant; primary active compound is curcumin.
  Safe
• 27 Yeast Extract
  Concentrate of soluble compounds from autolyzed Saccharomyces yeast cells; contains naturally occurring glutamates and nucleotides.
  Low
• 28 Soya Lecithin
  A naturally occurring mixture of phospholipids (phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol) extracted from soybean …
  Low
• 29 Durum Wheat Semolina
  Coarse purified middlings from durum wheat (Triticum durum), used to make pasta and couscous.
  Low
• 30 Wheat Flour
  Powder ground from wheat grain (Triticum aestivum). Contains starch, gluten-forming proteins (gliadin, glutenin), bran, and germ depending o…
  Low
• 31 Egg White
  The clear protein-rich liquid (albumen) inside chicken eggs.
  Low
• 32 Chickpea
  Chickpea / garbanzo bean (Cicer arietinum), a legume.
  Safe