Is Arizona RX Energy Herbal Tonic ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- Flavouring
- Glucose
- High fructose corn syrup
- Fructose
- E414 Acacia gum
- E445 Glycerol esters of wood rosin
- 21 ingredients
- 3 additives
- Nutri-Score E
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
filtered water, high fructose corn syrup (ultra-processing marker) (glucose-fructose syrup), pear juice from concentrate, mango puree, orange blossom honey (processing marker), citric acid, lemon juice from concentrate, natural flavors (ultra-processing marker), ascorbic acid (vitamin c), gum acacia (ultra-processing marker), caffeine, beta carotene for color, vitamin e acetate, ester gum (ultra-processing marker), guarana root extract, vitamin a palmitate, panax ginseng extract, eleuthero root extract, schisandra extract
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), PEAR JUICE FROM CONCENTRATE, MANGO PUREE, ORANGE BLOSSOM HONEY, CITRIC ACID, LEMON JUICE FROM CONCENTRATE, NATURAL FLAVORS, ASCORBIC ACID (VITAMIN C), GUM ACACIA, CAFFEINE, BETA CAROTENE FOR COLOR, VITAMIN E ACETATE, ESTER GUM, GUARANA ROOT EXTRACT, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, PANAX GINSENG EXTRACT, ELEUTHERO ROOT EXTRACT, SCHISANDRA EXTRACT.
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.
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.
- Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
Among 73 iced teas
From least to most processed, this one ranks 70th. 84% of the iced teas here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0613008749552, last edited 26 February 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.