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Is Lipton Lemon Ice Tea ultra-processed?

1.25L Iced teas Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Lipton Lemon Ice Tea

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:

  • 16 ingredients
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed iced teas

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

water, sugars (sucrose, fructose), acids (citric acid, malic acid), black tea extract 0.12%, lemon juice from concentrate 0.1%, acidity regulator (trisodium citrate), flavourings, antioxidant (ascorbic acid), sweetener (steviol glycosides from stevia)

Additives: E296 Malic acid , E300 Ascorbic acid , E330 Citric acid , E331 Sodium citrates , E331iii Trisodium citrate , E960a Steviol glycosides from Stevia

As written on the pack

water, sugars (sucrose, fructose), acids (citric acid, malic acid), black tea extract (0,12%), lemon juice from concentrate (0,1%), acidity regulator (trisodium citrate), flavourings, antioxidant (ascorbic acid), sweetener (steviol glycosides from stevia),

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.

  • 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.

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.

  • 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.

  • 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 47th. 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 4060800167064, last edited 1 May 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.