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Is Guinness Gunness Malta Single Bottle 330ml ultra-processed?

330 ml Carbonated drinks Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Guinness Gunness Malta Single Bottle 330ml

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:

  • 15 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed carbonated drinks

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, sorghum, sucrose, barley, malt, caramel, hops, stabilizer (e405), vitamins, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B3, vitamin B5, vitamin B6

Additives: E405 Propane-1‚2-diol alginate

As written on the pack

CARBONATED WATER, SORGHUM, SUCROSE, BARLEY, MALT, CARAMEL, HOPS, STABILIZER E405, VITAMINS B1, B2, B3, B5, B6.

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.

  • E405 Propane-1‚2-diol alginate A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
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 826 carbonated drinks

From least to most processed, this one ranks 195th. 91% of the carbonated drinks 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 826 carbonated drinks, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000213011942, last edited 26 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.