Is Marks & Spencer diet cloudy lemonade ultra-processed?

Carbonated fruit soft drink 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
E955 Sucralose

11 ingredients
4 additives
Nutri-Score C

Less processed carbonated fruit soft drink

Boisson petillante Belvoir Fleur de Surea Belvoir Fruit Farms 5 ingredients · 1 additive NOVA group 3
Lemonaid+ Blood Orange Lemonaid 8 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 3
Elderflower Lemonade Cawston Press 6 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 3
Sparking wild elderflower pressé 5 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 3

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

Carbonated Water, Comminuted Lemon fro Concentrate 4%, Orange Juice from Concentrate 1%, Lemon Juice from Concentrate 1%, Acid (Malic Acid), flavourings (ultra-processing marker), Preservative (processing marker) (e202 (processing marker)), e242 Sweetener (Sucralose (ultra-processing marker))

Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate , E242 Dimethyl dicarbonate , E296 Malic acid , E955 Sucralose

As written on the pack

Carbonated Water - Comminuted Lemon fro Concentrate (4%)- Orange Juice from Concentrate (1%) - Lemon Juice from Concentrate (1%) - Acid: Malic Acid - flavourings - Preservative: E202, E242 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.

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 45 carbonated fruit soft drink

From least to most processed, this one ranks 17th. 84% of the carbonated fruit soft drink 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 45 carbonated fruit soft drink, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 29258796, 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 C (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.