Is Multibev Orangina ultra-processed?

500 ml Orange soft drinks Sold in Norway

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Preservative
Sugar
E202 Potassium sorbate

13 ingredients
1 additive
Nutri-Score E

Less processed fruit-based beverages

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

Kolsyrat vatten, apelsinjuice 12%, andra citrusjuicer från koncentrat 12% (apelsin 10%, citron, mandarin, grapefrukt), socker (processing marker), av apelsin 2%, apelsinskal, konserveringsmedel (processing marker) (kaliumsorbat (processing marker)), naturliga apelsinaromer

Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate

As written on the pack

Kolsyrat vatten, apelsinjuice och andra citrusjuicer från koncentrat 12% (apelsin 10%, citron, mandarin, grapefrukt), socker, fruktkött av apelsin 2%, apelsinskalextrakt, konserveringsmedel: kaliumsorbat, naturliga apelsinaromer

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.

Preservation and traditional processing

Keep food safe or ferment it, like preservatives and cultures. A sign of processing, not ultra-processing.

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.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

Sodas Products in the category "Sodas" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 31 orange soft drinks

From least to most processed, this one ranks 3rd. 90% of the orange soft drinks 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 31 orange soft drinks, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7310401003467, last edited 4 December 2024), 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 E (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.