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Is Dr Aloe aloe vera drink original ultra-processed?

500 ml Aloe Vera drinks Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Dr Aloe aloe vera drink original

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:

  • 19 ingredients
  • 7 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed aloe Vera drinks

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

cor snh rer, aloe vera 25%, sugar, apple juice from concent, acidity regulators (citric acid, sodium citrate), stabiliser (calcium lactate, gellan gum, xanthan gum), sweetener (acesulfame k), preservative (sodium benzoate), flavour, white en aloe vera drink with sugar and sweeteners storage (store in a cool place and out of sunlight, refrigerate)

Additives: E211 Sodium benzoate , E327 Calcium lactate , E330 Citric acid , E331 Sodium citrates , E415 Xanthan gum , E418 Gellan gum , E950 Acesulfame k

As written on the pack

cor snh rer, aloe vera (25%), sugar, apple juice from concent, acidity regulators (citric acid, sodium citrate), stabiliser (calcium lactate, gellan gum, xanthan gum), sweetener (acesulfame k), preservative (sodium benzoate), flavour (white en aloe vera drink with sugar and sweeteners storage: store in a cool place and out of sunlight. refrigerate

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.

  • E327 Calcium lactate Thickeners are substances which increase the viscosity of a foodstuff.
  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • 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.
  • E950 Acesulfame k Acesulfame K is a synthetic sweetener about 200 times sweeter than sugar, often combined with aspartame or sucralose.
  • 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.
2 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.

  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 12 aloe Vera drinks

From least to most processed, this one ranks 12th. 83% of the aloe Vera drinks 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 12 aloe Vera drinks, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5055894021162, 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.