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Is Arizona watermelon fruit juice cocktail ultra-processed?

22oz Fruit-based foods Sold in the United States and France

Pack of Arizona watermelon 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:

  • 16 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed fruit-based foods

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), pear juice from concentrate, mango puree, citric acid, pineapple juice from concentrate, kiwi, watermelon, fruit, vegetable for color, natural flavors, ascorbic acid (vitamin c), gum acacia, sucralose

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

As written on the pack

Filtered water, high fructose corn syrup (glucose-fructose syrup), pear juice from concentrate, mango puree, citric acid, pineapple juice from concentrate, kiwi juice from concentrate, watermelon juice from concentrate, fruit and vegetable juice for color, natural flavors, ascorbic acid (vitamin c), gum acacia, sucralose

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.

  • 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 386 fruit-based foods

From least to most processed, this one ranks 376th. 47% of the fruit-based foods 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 386 fruit-based foods, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0613008720209, last edited 12 April 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.