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Is Coca-Cola Company Powerade Mountain Blast ultra-processed?

500 ml Dietary drink for sport Sold in the United Kingdom, Belarus and 8 more countries

Pack of Coca-Cola Company Powerade Mountain Blast

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:

  • 17 ingredients
  • 8 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed diet beverages

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

Water, dextrose, citric acid, sodium citrate, potassium citrate, fructose, e414, e950, e951, e330, e331, e332, aspartame, acesulfame K, flavorings, e133, vitamin B6

Additives: E133 Brilliant blue FCF , E330 Citric acid , E331 Sodium citrates , E332 Potassium citrates , E332ii Tripotassium citrate , E414 Acacia gum , E950 Acesulfame k , E951 Aspartame

As written on the pack

Water, dextrose, acidity regulators (citric acid, sodium citrate, potassium citrate), fructose, stabilizers (E414, E950, E951, E330, E331, E332), sweeteners (aspartame, acesulfame K), flavorings, coloring agent (E133), vitamin B6.

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.

  • E133 Brilliant blue FCF Brilliant blue FCF is a synthetic blue dye, listed in the US as FD&C Blue No. 1.
  • 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.
  • E950 Acesulfame k Acesulfame K is a synthetic sweetener about 200 times sweeter than sugar, often combined with aspartame or sucralose.
  • E951 Aspartame Aspartame is a synthetic sweetener about 200 times sweeter than sugar, used in diet drinks and sugar-free products.
  • 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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 23 dietary drink for sport

From least to most processed, this one ranks 22nd. 96% of the dietary drink for sport 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 23 dietary drink for sport, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 54492653, last edited 1 October 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.