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Is Carrick Glen Vitamin water: Apple & Elderflower ultra-processed?

500 ml Flavored waters Sold in the United Kingdom and Ireland

Pack of Carrick Glen Vitamin water: Apple & Elderflower

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:

  • 29 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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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

spring water, apple juice from concentrate 13%, acid (citric acid), mate extract, natural flavourings, stabiliser (acacia gum), l-carnitine 0.025%, colour (copper chrolophyllins), sweetener (sucralose), vitamins, vitamin c, niacin, pantothenic acid, vitamin b6, thiamin, folic acid, biotin, vitamin b12, fruit and vegetable concentrates (apple, carrot, hibiscus, safflower, lemon), molasses

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

As written on the pack

spring water, 13% apple juice from concentrate, acid: citric acid: mate extract, natural flavourings, stabiliser: acacia gum, 0,025% l-carnitine, colour: copper chrolophyllins, sweetener: sucralose, vitamin c, niacin, pantothenic acid, vitamin b6, thiamin, folic acid, biotin, vitamin b12, fruit and vegetable concentrates (apple, carrot, hibiscus, safflower, lemon), molasses,

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.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Sweetener Sweeteners give sweetness with few or no calories, many at hundreds of times the strength of sugar.
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.

  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 119 flavored waters

From least to most processed, this one ranks 113th. 86% of the flavored waters 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 119 flavored waters, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4056489421719, last edited 29 June 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.