Artificially sweetened beverages, from least to most processed

We track 525 artificially sweetened beverages, 98% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is lemon perfect peach.

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What makes artificially sweetened beverages ultra-processed

The signs of ultra-processing found most often, and the share of artificially sweetened beverages that contain each:

Unprocessed or minimally processed (4)

  1. 1 lemon perfect peach Lemon Perfect NOVA group 1
  2. 2 Apple + Elderflower Maté Tea + L-Carnitine Vit-Hit Lean & Green · 500ml NOVA group 1
  3. 3 Orange Kiss Energy Drink Alani NU · 12oz NOVA group 1
  4. 4 Virtue Sparkling Energy Water Berries Refresh Brands · 250 NOVA group 1

Processed food (7)

  1. 5 Zero sugar wild cherry and cream Pepsi · 12 fl oz NOVA group 3
  2. 6 Slimline Tonic Water with Elderflower Schweppes NOVA group 3
  3. 7 Chia Energy Gel Huma · 43g NOVA group 3
  4. 8 Flash I.V. Grape Body Armor Nutrition · 6 x 7g NOVA group 3
  5. 9 Stuffed mushrooms Freeway · 330 ml NOVA group 3
  6. 10 Zero Cider Thatchers NOVA group 3
  7. 11 Fruit Punch Sports Drink BodyArmor NOVA group 3

Ultra-processed food (514)

  1. 12 Naturally Essenced Berry Sparkling Water La Croix NOVA group 4
  2. 13 grapefruitbubly Bubly · 355 mL NOVA group 4
  3. 14 Healthy Energy Apple Raspberry Perfect ted · 250 ml NOVA group 4
  4. 15 Healthy Energy Juicy Peach Perfect Ted · 250 mL NOVA group 4
  5. 16 Citrus Berry Gatorade Fit NOVA group 4
  6. 17 Trocadero Zero Trocadero · 330ml NOVA group 4
  7. 18 Gingee kombucha No1 Living · 750 ml NOVA group 4
  8. 19 Vitalitea Vit·hit Apple & Elderflower Flavour Vitalité À · 500 ml NOVA group 4
  9. 20 Fanta zero sugar orange Fanta · 2 x 250 ml NOVA group 4
  10. 21 Lemon-Lime Flavoured Sprite NOVA group 4
  11. 22 Kiwi strawberry Celsius · 12 fl oz NOVA group 4
  12. 23 Sparkling Mango & Violet Dr Funk NOVA group 4
  13. 24 7up 7up · 33 cl / 330 ml NOVA group 4
  14. 25 Zero Sugar Fruit Punch Bodyarmor NOVA group 4
  15. 26 Kombucha Lo Bros · 330 ml NOVA group 4
  16. 27 Vitamin Well Defence Citrus / Fläder Vitamin Well NOVA group 4
  17. 28 Ginger kombocha 4 x 250 ml NOVA group 4
  18. 29 Rejuvenate Natural Energy Purdey's · 330ml NOVA group 4
  19. 30 Grape Soda Zevia NOVA group 4
  20. 31 Tea Peace Tea · 360 ml NOVA group 4
  21. 32 Coke Zero - 330ml Coca Cola · 330 ml NOVA group 4
  22. 33 Ramonade Focus Nocco · 330 ml NOVA group 4
  23. 34 Acti-Vit Activit NOVA group 4
  24. 35 Sparkling Strawberry Passionfruit Celsius · 12 oz NOVA group 4
  25. 36 Mango Lemonade Celcius · 12 fl oz NOVA group 4
  26. 37 Live Fit Celsius · 12 oz NOVA group 4
  27. 38 Peach Vibe Sparkling White Peach Edition Celsius · 12 FL OZ (355mL) NOVA group 4
  28. 39 Prime Hydration Drink - Blue Raspberry Prime Hydration · 500 mL NOVA group 4
  29. 40 Gatorlyte Rapid Rehydration Cherry Lime Gatorlyte NOVA group 4
  30. 41 Sparkling flavoured mineral water Peach & Passion fruit Carrick Glen NOVA group 4
  31. 42 fanta Orange 0,33 Coca-Cola Services Sa/Nv · 330 ml NOVA group 4
  32. 43 Rainbow Twist Sports Hydration BioSteel · 500 mL NOVA group 4
  33. 44 Aloe Vera drink Dr Aloe · 500 ml NOVA group 4
  34. 45 Lime cordial Sainsbury's NOVA group 4
  35. 46 Orange Tesco NOVA group 4
  36. 47 Boost Berry Rooibos Tea + Ginseng Vit Hit · 500 ml NOVA group 4
  37. 48 Diet Coke Soft Drink Coke · 144 fl oz NOVA group 4
  38. 49 Lime squash Sainsbury's NOVA group 4
  39. 50 Aloe Vera Drink Pure Plus NOVA group 4
  40. 51 Sprite 330 ml Sprite · 330 ml NOVA group 4

Showing the first 40 of 514. The narrower categories above, or search, find the rest.

Within each group, products with fewer signs of ultra-processing, additives and ingredients come first. This ordering is ours, for comparison; it is not part of NOVA.