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Is Fentimans Dandelion & Burdock ultra-processed?

750 ml Herbal teas Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Fentimans Dandelion & Burdock

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
  • 3 additives

Less processed herbal teas

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

Carbonated Water, pear juice, ginger root extract (water, glucose syrup, ginger root, pear juice concentrate, yeast), sugar, colour (e150a), natural flavourings, sweetener (steviol glycosides from stevia), acid (citric acid), herbal infusion (dandelion root, burdock root)

Additives: E150a Plain caramel , E330 Citric acid , E960a Steviol glycosides from Stevia

As written on the pack

Carbonated Water, pear juice, fermented ginger root extract (water, glucose syrup, ginger root, pear juice concentrate, yeast), sugar, colour (caramel E150a), natural flavourings, sweetener (steviol glycosides from stevia), acid (citric acid), herbal infusion (dandelion root, burdock root)

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.

  • E150a Plain caramel Plain caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars.
  • 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.

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.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
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 88 herbal teas

From least to most processed, this one ranks 88th. 51% of the herbal teas 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 88 herbal teas, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5029396003339, last edited 5 July 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.