Is Marks & Spencers Spirit of Summer Iced Tea - Spanish Peach ultra-processed?

750 ml Tea-based beverages Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Sweetener
E415 Xanthan gum
E955 Sucralose

12 ingredients
4 additives
Nutri-Score D

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Water, Peach Juice 23%, White Tea Infusion 1% (White Tea, Stabiliser (Xanthan gum (ultra-processing marker))), Acidity Regulator (Citric Acid, Antioxidant), Ascorbic Acid, Sweetener (ultra-processing marker) (Sucralose (ultra-processing marker))

Additives: E300 Ascorbic acid , E330 Citric acid , E415 Xanthan gum , E955 Sucralose

As written on the pack

Water, Peach Juice (23%) - White Tea Infusion (1%) (White Tea, Stabiliser: Xanthan gum), Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid · Antioxidant: Ascorbic Acid - 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.

E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
E955 Sucralose Sucralose is a sweetener made by chlorinating sugar.
Sweetener Sweeteners give sweetness with few or no calories, many at hundreds of times the strength of sugar.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 187 tea-based beverages

From least to most processed, this one ranks 142nd. 70% of the tea-based beverages 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 187 tea-based beverages, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00377331, last edited 15 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.