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Is Ocean Spray Cranberry apple juice ultra-processed?

Plant-based beverages Sold in the United States

Pack of Ocean Spray Cranberry apple juice

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:

  • 16 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed plant-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

Filtered water, cane, beet sugar, cranberry (water, cranberry), apple juice (water, apple juice), natural flavors, fumaric acid, vegetable for color, sodium citrate, malic acid, ascorbic acid (vitamin c)

Additives: E296 Malic acid , E297 Fumaric acid , E331 Sodium citrates

As written on the pack

Filtered water, cane or beet sugar, cranberry juice (water, cranberry juice concentrate), apple juice (water, apple juice concentrate), natural flavors, fumaric acid, vegetable concentrate for color, sodium citrate, malic acid, ascorbic acid (vitamin c).

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.
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 1,803 plant-based beverages

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1115th. 55% of the plant-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 1,803 plant-based beverages, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0031200202970, last edited 22 January 2022), 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.