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Is Lidl Watermelon Sweets ultra-processed?

120 g Fruit jellies Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Lidl Watermelon Sweets

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:

  • 23 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed fruit jellies

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

Watermelon flavoured jelly sweets Ingadients Glucose Syrup, Sugar, Modified Starch (Potato, Tapioca), Dextrose, Watermeon Juice from Concentrate 6%, Potato Protein, Acids (Citric Acid), Lactic Acid, Malic Acid, Colouring (Plant), Fruit and Vegetable Concentrates (Safflower, ots), Acidity Regulator (Sodium Malates), Flavourings, Spirulina, Blackcurrants, Carro

Additives: E14XX Modified Starch , E270 Lactic acid , E296 Malic acid , E330 Citric acid , E350 Sodium malates

As written on the pack

Watermelon flavoured jelly sweets Ingadients Glucose Syrup, Sugar, Modified Starch (Potato, Tapioca), Dextrose, 6% Watermeon Juice from Concentrate, Potato Protein, Acids: Citric Acid, Lactic Acid, Malic Acid; Colouring Plant, Fruit and Vegetable Concentrates (Safflower, ots), Acidity Regulator: Sodium Malates; Flavourings. Spirulina, Blackcurrants, Carro

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.

  • E14xx Modified Starch Modified starches (E1400 to E1452) are starches treated physically, with enzymes or chemically so that they thicken and hold up to heating, freezing or acidity better than ordinary starch.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.

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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
4 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.

  • Candies Products in the category "Candies" are at least group 3.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 16 fruit jellies

From least to most processed, this one ranks 14th. 88% of the fruit jellies 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 fruit jellies, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4056489704997, 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.