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Is Lipton Peach Ice Tea ultra-processed?

500ml Flavored teas Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Lipton Peach 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:

  • 12 ingredients
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed flavored 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), Malic Acid, Citric Acid, Black Tea Extract 0.12%, Peach Juice from Concentrate 0.1%, Trisodium Citrate, Flavourings, Ascorbic Acid, 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 (Malic Acid, Citric Acid), Black Tea Extract (0.12%), Peach 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.

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 16 flavored teas

From least to most processed, this one ranks 14th. 63% of the flavored 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 16 flavored teas, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000118047817, last edited 21 August 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.