Instant beverages, from least to most processed

We track 197 instant beverages, 57% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Freeze Dried Instant Coffee.

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What makes instant beverages ultra-processed

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

Unprocessed or minimally processed (72)

  1. 1 Freeze Dried Instant Coffee Bellarom · 200g NOVA group 1
  2. 2 Decaff Gold Roast Coffee Alcafe · 100 g NOVA group 1
  3. 3 Nescafé Original Nescafé · 200 g NOVA group 1
  4. 4 Tesco Gold Coffee 200G Tesco · 200 g NOVA group 1
  5. 5 Instant Coffee Nescafe · 475 g NOVA group 1
  6. 6 Instant Coffee Folgers NOVA group 1
  7. 7 Rich Roast Coffee Kenco · 200g NOVA group 1
  8. 8 Smooth Well-Rounded Medium Roast Kenco · 100g NOVA group 1
  9. 9 Coffee - Decaff Kenco NOVA group 1
  10. 10 Instant coffee Espresso Gold Blend Nescafé · 95g NOVA group 1
  11. 11 Espresso Instant Coffee Cafe Bustelo NOVA group 1
  12. 12 Colombian freeze dried instant coffee Deluxe · 100 g NOVA group 1
  13. 13 Nescafé Gold Blend Decaf Nescafé · 190g NOVA group 1
  14. 14 Nescafe Original Nestlé · 300 g NOVA group 1
  15. 15 Alta rica gold blend Nestlé · 190 g NOVA group 1
  16. 16 Decaf Coffee L'Or NOVA group 1
  17. 17 Nescafe gold smooth Nescafé · 200 g NOVA group 1
  18. 18 Nescafé Decaff Nestlé · 100g NOVA group 1
  19. 19 Gold Roast Freeze Dried Instant Coffee Asda · 200 g NOVA group 1
  20. 20 nescafe decaff Nescafé · 300 g NOVA group 1
  21. 21 Decaff Nescafé · 200g NOVA group 1
  22. 22 Pineapple Juice from Concentrate Asda · 1L NOVA group 1
  23. 23 Divine Cocoa Divine chocolate · 125g NOVA group 1
  24. 24 Instant coffee Moccona · 400g NOVA group 1
  25. 25 Lyx mellanrost Nescafé · 200 g NOVA group 1
  26. 26 Beanies Nutty Hazlenut 50g NOVA group 1
  27. 27 Gold Espresso Nescafe · 100g NOVA group 1
  28. 28 Instant Coffer Gold Decaff Lidl · 200g NOVA group 1
  29. 29 Nescafé Gold Espresso Blonde Nescafé · 3.50 oz NOVA group 1
  30. 30 Decaf Nescafe NOVA group 1
  31. 31 Alcafe Gold Classic Medium Roast Coles · 100g NOVA group 1
  32. 32 Instant Coffee Gold Decaffeinated Lidl · 200g NOVA group 1
  33. 33 Douwe Egberts Pure Gold Coffee 95G Douwe Egberts · 95g NOVA group 1
  34. 34 decaffeinated freeze dried coffee Sainsbury's NOVA group 1
  35. 35 Nescafé Rich Nescafé · 100 g NOVA group 1
  36. 36 Moccona Freeze Dried Instant Coffee Classic Medium Roast Moccona · 200 g NOVA group 1
  37. 37 Freeze Dried Instant Coffee Moccona · 200 g NOVA group 1
  38. 38 Taster's Choice Classic Nescafe · 100 g NOVA group 1
  39. 39 Tesco Gold Coffee Extra select · 500g NOVA group 1
  40. 40 Colombian instant coffee Aldi · 100g NOVA group 1

Showing the first 40 of 72. The narrower categories above, or search, find the rest.

Processed food (12)

  1. 73 Hot Chocolate 250 g NOVA group 3
  2. 74 Drinking Chocolate Sainsbury's · 300g NOVA group 3
  3. 75 Indulgent Drinking Chocolate Tesco · 250 g NOVA group 3
  4. 76 Decadent hot chocolate 375 g NOVA group 3
  5. 77 Super cosy drinking chocolate Clipper · 250 g NOVA group 3
  6. 78 Chicory & coffee essence Camp · 241 ml NOVA group 3
  7. 79 Classic hot chocolate powder Islands · 200g NOVA group 3
  8. 80 Cadbury Drinking Chocolate Cadbury · 400 g NOVA group 3
  9. 81 Ovaltine Ovaltine NOVA group 3
  10. 82 Citronjuice 200ml NOVA group 3
  11. 83 Organic hot chocolate Green and blacks · 250g NOVA group 3
  12. 84 Triple Shot Espresso Starbucks · 300ml NOVA group 3

Ultra-processed food (113)

  1. 85 Cookie dough flavour instant coffee Beanie's · 50g NOVA group 4
  2. 86 Fairtrade Instant Hot Chocolate Clipper · 350 g NOVA group 4
  3. 87 Nescafe Gold Blend. Smooth Vanilla Flavoured Insta Nescafé NOVA group 4
  4. 88 Drinking Hot Chocolate Cadbury · 750 g NOVA group 4
  5. 89 superfood organic Hot Chocolate Naturya · 300 g NOVA group 4
  6. 90 Drinking Chocolate Cadbury · 450g NOVA group 4
  7. 91 Taster's Choice French Roast Nescafe · 7oz NOVA group 4
  8. 92 Ovaltine Original Ovaltine · 300 NOVA group 4
  9. 93 Hot Chocolate Powder Cadbury · 500 g NOVA group 4
  10. 94 Cadbury hot chocolate Cadbury · 250 g NOVA group 4
  11. 95 Original drinking chocolate Cadbury · 500 NOVA group 4
  12. 96 Frukt- & Bärdryck Hallon Persika Kiviks Musteri · 2 dl NOVA group 4
  13. 97 Vattenmelon och Hallon Lättdryck BOB · 1pcs NOVA group 4
  14. 98 Drinking Chocolate Galaxy · 450 g NOVA group 4
  15. 99 ORIGINAL hot malty goodness Horlicks · 400 g NOVA group 4
  16. 100 Hot chocolate MediKills · 45p g NOVA group 4
  17. 101 Nesquik Chocolate Flavour Nesquik · 500 g NOVA group 4
  18. 102 Milkshake Mokate NOVA group 4
  19. 103 Milo Nestlé · 400 g NOVA group 4
  20. 104 Classic Malt Horlicks · 500 g NOVA group 4
  21. 105 Green & Black'S Organic Chocolate Drink Green & Black’s · 300 g e NOVA group 4
  22. 106 Simply Hot Chocolate Nestlé · 1.9 kg NOVA group 4
  23. 107 Drinking Chocolate Tesco · 400g NOVA group 4
  24. 108 Nesquik Strawberry 300gr Nesquik · 300 g NOVA group 4
  25. 109 Chocolate Flavor Nesquik · 10 oz NOVA group 4
  26. 110 O'boy O'boy · 1.1 kg NOVA group 4
  27. 111 Ovaltine Sleep Chocolate Ovaltine · 400 g NOVA group 4
  28. 112 Signature Chocolate Starbucks · 330 g NOVA group 4
  29. 113 Nesquik Cocoa Nestlé · 540 g NOVA group 4
  30. 114 Nesquik Nestlé · 300g NOVA group 4
  31. 115 Nes Milo 200gm Nestlé · 200 g NOVA group 4
  32. 116 Drinking Chocolate Avalanche · 200 g NOVA group 4
  33. 117 Dark Chocolate Hot Cocoa Mix Swiss Miss · (8 x 1.25 oz) 10 oz (283 g) NOVA group 4
  34. 118 GOLD Cappuccino Unsweetened Taste Coffee, 8 Sachets x Nestle · 14.2 NOVA group 4
  35. 119 Lime cordial Sainsbury's NOVA group 4
  36. 120 Barley Water Lemon Robinsons · 850 ml NOVA group 4
  37. 121 Galaxy hot chocolate powder Galaxy NOVA group 4
  38. 122 Goody Cao Bellarom · 500g NOVA group 4
  39. 123 Hydra Fruit 60% Less Sugar - Peach Oasis · 960 mL NOVA group 4
  40. 124 Luxury Chocolate Drink Twinings · 350 g NOVA group 4

Showing the first 40 of 113. 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.