Is Califia Farms Cold brew coffee with oat Caramel oat ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 18 ingredients
- 6 additives
- Nutri-Score C
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Water, cold brew coffee 60% (water, coffee), cane sugar (processing marker), caramel 1.6% (cane sugar (processing marker), water), oats 1.3%, sunflower oil (processing marker), stabilisers (acacia gum (ultra-processing marker), gellan gum (ultra-processing marker)), flavourings (ultra-processing marker), sea salt (processing marker), calcium carbonate (ultra-processing marker), acidity regulator (potassium citrate)
Additives: E170 Calcium carbonates , E170i Calcium carbonate , E332 Potassium citrates , E332ii Tripotassium citrate , E414 Acacia gum , E418 Gellan gum
As written on the pack
Water, cold brew coffee 60% (water, coffee extract), cane sugar, caramel 1.6% (cane sugar, water), oats 1.3%, sunflower oil, stabilisers (acacia gum, gellan gum), flavourings, sea salt, calcium carbonate, acidity regulator (potassium citrate).
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.
- E170 Calcium carbonates Calcium carbonate is chalk.
- 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.
- E418 Gellan gum Stabilisers are substances which make it possible to maintain the physico-chemical state of a foodstuff; stabilisers include substances which enable the maintenance of a homogenous dispersion of two or more immiscible substances in a foodstuff, substances which stabilise, retain or intensify an existing colour of a foodstuff and substances which increase the binding capacity of the food, including the formation of cross-links between proteins enabling the binding of food pieces into re-constituted food.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
3 ingredients that would only make it processed
Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
Among 97 coffee drinks
From least to most processed, this one ranks 83rd. 72% of the coffee drinks here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0813636023189, last edited 27 March 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.