Is Ginseng Energy Korean pear juice with enriched Vitamins ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- Flavouring
- Glucose
- High fructose corn syrup
- Fructose
- E640 Glycine and its sodium salt
- E955 Sucralose
- 21 ingredients
- 6 additives
- Nutri-Score E
Less processed energy drinks
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup (ultra-processing marker), Pear juice, Taurine, Citric Acid, Mango Flavouring (ultra-processing marker), Mixed Fruits Flavouring, Vitamin C, Caffeine, DL-Alanine, Refined Salt (processing marker), Niacin, Sucralose (ultra-processing marker), Trisodium Citrate, Glycine (ultra-processing marker), Cyanocobalamin 0.1%, Calcium Pantothenate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Riboflavin, Korean Red Ginseng Extract, Ginkgo Biloba Extract
Additives: E330 Citric acid , E331 Sodium citrates , E331iii Trisodium citrate , E640 Glycine and its sodium salt , E640i Glycine , E955 Sucralose
As written on the pack
Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Pear juice, Taurine, Citric Acid, Mango Flavouring, Mixed Fruits Flavouring, Vitamin C, Caffeine Anhydrous, DL-Alanine, Refined Salt, Niacin, Sucralose, Trisodium Citrate, Glycine, Cyanocobalamin (0.1%), Calcium Pantothenate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Riboflavin, Korean Red Ginseng Extract, Ginkgo Biloba Extract
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.
- E640 Glycine and its sodium salt A food additive authorised for industrial food production.
- E955 Sucralose Sucralose is a sweetener made by chlorinating sugar.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
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.
- High fructose corn syrup High-fructose corn syrup is made from corn starch: enzymes break it down to glucose and convert part of that into fructose, giving a syrup about as sweet as table sugar.
- Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
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.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
Among 278 energy drinks
From least to most processed, this one ranks 176th. 99% of the energy drinks here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8806001087994, last edited 1 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.