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Is Arctic Coffee Café Latte 1L ultra-processed?

1L Iced coffees Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Arctic Coffee Café Latte 1L

Yes, it's ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 11 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed iced coffees

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

low-fat MILK 1%, coffee (water, coffee powder), sugar, sugar, stabilisers (cellulose, cellulose gum), acidity regulator (sodium phosphate)

Additives: E339 Sodium phosphates , E460 Cellulose , E466 Sodium carboxy methyl cellulose

As written on the pack

1% low-fat MILK (75%), coffee (water, coffee powder*) (20%), sugar, caramelised sugar powder, stabilisers (cellulose, cellulose gum), acidity regulator: sodium phosphate.

What makes it ultra-processed

Cosmetic additives

Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • E460 Cellulose A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
  • E466 Sodium carboxy methyl cellulose Carboxymethyl cellulose is a thickener made by chemically modifying cellulose from wood or cotton.
1 ingredient that would only make it processed

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 16 iced coffees

From least to most processed, this one ranks 13th. 44% of the iced coffees here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 16 iced coffees, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000316000720, last edited 10 March 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
  • NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.