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Is Fentimans Ginger Beer ultra-processed?

4 x 275ml Ginger beer Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Fentimans Ginger Beer

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:

  • 22 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed ginger beer

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, ginger root extract (water, glucose syrup, ginger root, pear juice concentrate, yeast), sugar, pear juice concentrate, natural flavourings (ginger, lemon, capsicum), cream of tartar, acid (citric acid), sweetener (steviol glycosides from stevia), herbal infusions (speedwell, juniper, yarrow)

Additives: E330 Citric acid , E336 Potassium tartrates , E336i Monopotassium tartrate , E960a Steviol glycosides from Stevia

As written on the pack

Carbonated water, fermented ginger root extract (water, glucose syrup, ginger root, pear juice concentrate, yeast), sugar, pear juice concentrate, natural flavourings (ginger, lemon, capsicum), cream of tartar, acid: citric acid, sweetener: steviol glycosides from stevia, herbal infusions (speedwell, juniper, yarrow).

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.

  • 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 16 ginger beer

From least to most processed, this one ranks 12th. 81% of the ginger beer 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 16 ginger beer, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5029396003346, 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.