Is Equinox Organic Blood Orange Kombucha ultra-processed?

Kombuchas Sold in the United Kingdom

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 10 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed kombuchas

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

Filtered Water, Kombucha Culture, Raw Cane Sugar (processing marker), chun Mee Green Tea, Blood Orange Natural Flavouring, Hibiscus, Orange Natural Flavouring, Orange Peel, Probiotic B Culture, Bacillus Subtilis

As written on the pack

Filtered Water, Kombucha Culture, Raw Cane Sugar (fermented), chun Mee Green Tea (fermented), Blood Orange Natural Flavouring, Hibiscus, Orange Natural Flavouring, Orange Peel, Probiotic B Culture - Bacillus Subtilis

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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 96 kombuchas

From least to most processed, this one ranks 29th. 59% of the kombuchas 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 96 kombuchas, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060452360829, 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.
  • 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.