Is Highland Spring Apple & Blackcurrant Still Spring Water ultra-processed?

Waters Sold in the United Kingdom

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Flavouring
Sweetener
E955 Sucralose

10 ingredients
3 additives

Less processed waters

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

Still spring water, Acid (citric acid), natural flavourings (ultra-processing marker) (apple, blackcurrant with other natural flavourings), Preservative (processing marker) (potassium sorbate (processing marker)), sweetener (ultra-processing marker) (sucralose (ultra-processing marker))

Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate , E330 Citric acid , E955 Sucralose

As written on the pack

Still spring water, Acid (citric acid), natural flavourings (apple and blackcurrant with other natural flavourings) Preservative (potassium sorbate), sweetener (sucralose)

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.

E955 Sucralose Sucralose is a sweetener made by chlorinating sugar.
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.

2 ingredients that would only make it processed

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

E202 Potassium sorbate Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 409 waters

From least to most processed, this one ranks 320th. 62% of the waters 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 409 waters, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5010459000952, last edited 5 May 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
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The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
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