Is general Trading Refreshing Ice Tea - Lemon Flavor ultra-processed?

330 ml Iced teas Sold in Sweden and Denmark

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Sugar

12 ingredients
2 additives
Nutri-Score E

Less processed iced teas

PURE LEAF Real Brewed Tea UNSWEETENED NO SUGAR Pure Leaf 2 ingredients · 1 additive NOVA group 1
Oi Ocha Unsweetened Green Tea Ito En 4 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 1
Unsweetened Black Tea Gold Peak 5 ingredients · 1 additive NOVA group 1
Unsweetened black real brewed tea, unsweetened Pure Leaf 2 ingredients · 1 additive NOVA group 1

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

Vatten, socker (processing marker), syra (citronsyra), citronsaft från koncentrat 1%, extrakt (svart textrakt 0.1%), smaksattning, surhetsregulator (natriumcitrat), antioxidant (askorbinsyra)

Additives: E300 Ascorbic acid , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Vatten, socker, syra: citronsyra, citronsaft från koncentrat (1%), extrakt: svart textrakt (0,1%); smaksattning, surhetsregulator: natriumcitrat; antioxidant:askorbinsyra.

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 73 iced teas

From least to most processed, this one ranks 12th. 84% of the iced 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 73 iced teas, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7350103620234, last edited 2 April 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 E (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.