Is Lipton Peach Flavour Ice Tea ultra-processed?

500 ml Iced teas Sold in Australia, New Zealand and France

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Flavouring
Sweetener
Fructose
E960 Steviol glycosides

15 ingredients
5 additives
Nutri-Score D

Less processed iced teas

PURE LEAF Real Brewed Tea UNSWEETENED NO SUGAR Pure Leaf 2 ingredients · 1 additive NOVA group 1
Oi Ocha Unsweetened Green Tea Ito En 4 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 1
Unsweetened Black Tea Gold Peak 5 ingredients · 1 additive NOVA group 1
Unsweetened black real brewed tea, unsweetened Pure Leaf 2 ingredients · 1 additive NOVA group 1

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, Black Tea Extract 4%, Sugar (processing marker), Fructose (ultra-processing marker), Food Acids (296, 330), Peach Juice From Concentrate 0.1%, Flavours (ultra-processing marker), Antioxidant (300), Acidity Regulator (331), Natural Sweetener (ultra-processing marker) (960)

Additives: E296 Malic acid , E300 Ascorbic acid , E330 Citric acid , E331 Sodium citrates , E960 Steviol glycosides

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E960 Steviol glycosides.

As written on the pack

Water, Black Tea Extract (4%), Sugar, Fructose, Food Acids (296, 330), Peach Juice From Concentrate (0.1%), Flavours, Antioxidant (300), Acidity Regulator (331), Natural Sweetener (960).

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.

E960 Steviol glycosides Steviol glycosides are sweet compounds extracted and purified from the leaves of the stevia plant.
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 59th. 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 9310021039035, last edited 17 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 D (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.