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Cordials, from least to most processed

We track 28 cordials, 75% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Belvoir Farm Ginger Cordial.

What makes cordials ultra-processed

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

Processed food (7)

  1. 1 Belvoir Farm Ginger Cordial Ginger Cordial · 500ml 3
  2. 2 Juicy Oranges Whole Fruit Squash Rocks · 740 ml 3
  3. 3 belvoir farm elderflower cordial Belvoir · 500ml 3
  4. 4 Fläderblomsaft Brunneby · 50 cl 3
  5. 5 Farms Light Elderflower Pressé Belvoir Fruit Farms 3
  6. 6 Elderflower & Rose Cordial Belvoir 3
  7. 7 Double Strength Squash Apple & Blackcurrant Lidl · 1.5 L 3

Ultra-processed food (21)

  1. 8 elderflower cordial Bottle Green · 500 ml 4
  2. 9 M&S Cordial: Fragrant British Elderflower Marks & Spencer 4
  3. 10 Green Cordial Plump Summer Raspberry 4
  4. 11 mango and passion fruit cordial Bottle Green · 500 ml 4
  5. 12 Lime squash Sainsbury's 4
  6. 13 Lime Juice Rose's · 1 L 4
  7. 14 Crushed Lime & Mint Robinsons · 500ml 4
  8. 15 Squash 2 Litre Vimto 4
  9. 16 Easy Squeezy Apple & Blackcurrant Lindhouse · 66ml 4
  10. 17 Vimto No Added Sugar Vimto · 2 litres 4
  11. 18 Robinsons Real Fruit Double Strength Orange & Pineapple Robinsons · 1.75L 4
  12. 19 Lemon sqaush Tesco 4
  13. 20 Fruit & Barley Pink Grapefruit Squash Robinsons · 1L 4
  14. 21 Jacks Apple and Black Currant JACk's · 1500g 4
  15. 22 Grape, Raspberry & Blackcurrant Squash Lindhouse Mixto 4
  16. 23 Summer Fruits Quadruple Strength Tesco · 1.5L 4
  17. 24 Double Strength Apple And Blackcurrent Robinsons 4
  18. 25 Fruit Origins Orange & Mango Lindhouse · 1L 4
  19. 26 Double Strength Squash Orange (No added sugar) Lidl · 1.5L 4
  20. 27 Fruit & Barley squash Summer Fruits Lindhouse 4
  21. 28 Fruit & Barley squash Apple & Pear Lindhouse 4

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.