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Is AriZona Mucho Mango Fruit Juice Cocktail ultra-processed?

1 Liter Fruit juices Sold in the United States

Pack of AriZona Mucho Mango Fruit Juice Cocktail

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:

  • 12 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

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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

Filtered water, high fructose corn syrup (glucose-fructose syrup), mango puree, pear juice from concentrate, citric acid, ascorbic acid (vitamin c), beta carotene for color, natural flavors, gum acacia, ester gum

Additives: E330 Citric acid , E414 Acacia gum , E445 Glycerol esters of wood rosin

As written on the pack

Filtered water, high fructose corn syrup (glucose-fructose syrup), mango puree, pear juice from concentrate, citric acid, ascorbic acid (vitamin c), beta carotene for color, natural flavors, gum acacia, ester gum.

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.
  • E445 Glycerol esters of wood rosin Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.
  • 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.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • High fructose corn syrup High-fructose corn syrup is made from corn starch: enzymes break it down to glucose and convert part of that into fructose, giving a syrup about as sweet as table sugar.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 514 fruit juices

From least to most processed, this one ranks 489th. 35% of the fruit juices 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 514 fruit juices, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0613008742478, last edited 12 October 2025), 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.