Is AriZona Diet Half & Half Iced Tea Lemonade ultra-processed?

128 fl oz Lemonades Sold in the United States

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Flavouring
Fruit juice concentrate
E414 Acacia gum
E955 Sucralose

11 ingredients
4 additives
Nutri-Score C

Less processed lemonades

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

Premium brewed blend of black teas using filtered water, lemon juice from concentrate, pear juice from concentrate (ultra-processing marker), citric acid, natural flavors (ultra-processing marker), ascorbic acid (vitamin c), malic acid, sucralose (ultra-processing marker) (splenda brand), gum acacia (ultra-processing marker)

Additives: E296 Malic acid , E330 Citric acid , E414 Acacia gum , E955 Sucralose

As written on the pack

Premium brewed blend of black teas using filtered water, lemon juice from concentrate, pear juice from concentrate, citric acid, natural flavors, ascorbic acid (vitamin c), malic acid, sucralose (splenda brand), gum acacia.

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.

E414 Acacia gum Gum arabic (acacia gum) is the hardened sap of acacia trees, used to stabilise flavour emulsions in soft drinks and to coat sweets.
E955 Sucralose Sucralose is a sweetener made by chlorinating sugar.
Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

Substances rarely used in home kitchens

Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.

Fruit juice concentrate An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.

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.

Sodas Products in the category "Sodas" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 19 lemonades

From least to most processed, this one ranks 16th. 79% of the lemonades 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 19 lemonades, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0613008730444, last edited 14 July 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.