Is arnold palmer 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
- Fructose
- Fruit juice concentrate
- E414 Acacia gum
- E445 Glycerol esters of wood rosin
- and 2 more
- 13 ingredients
- 4 additives
- Nutri-Score E
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
premium brewed black teas using filtered water, fructose (ultra-processing marker), corn syrup (ultra-processing marker) (glucose-fructose syrup (ultra-processing marker)), pear juice from concentrate (ultra-processing marker), lemon juice from concentrate, flavors (ultra-processing marker), sucralose (ultra-processing marker), acesulfame potassium (ultra-processing marker), ascorbic acid (vitamin c), gum acacia (ultra-processing marker), ester gum (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E414 Acacia gum , E445 Glycerol esters of wood rosin , E950 Acesulfame k , E955 Sucralose
As written on the pack
PREMIUM BREWED BLACK TEAS USING FILTERED WATER, FRUCTOSE, CORN SYRUP (GLUCOSE-FRUCTOSE SYRUP), PEAR JUICE FROM CONCENTRATE, LEMON JUICE FROM CONCENTRATE, FLAVORS, SUCRALOSE, ACESULFAME POTASSIUM, ASCORBIC ACID (VITAMIN C), 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.
- E950 Acesulfame k Acesulfame K is a synthetic sweetener about 200 times sweeter than sugar, often combined with aspartame or sucralose.
- 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.
- Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
- Fruit juice concentrate An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0613008756468, last edited 7 September 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.