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Is Oishi Black Tea Lemon Ice Tea ultra-processed?

500 ml Iced teas Sold in the United Kingdom, France and Switzerland

Pack of Oishi Black Tea Lemon 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:

  • 13 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed iced 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, Sugar, Fructose, Black Tea Extract, Green Tea extract, Lemon Juice 0.01%, Acidity Regulator (e296, e330, e425), Antioxidant (e300), Flavoring

Additives: E296 Malic acid , E300 Ascorbic acid , E330 Citric acid , E425 Konjac

As written on the pack

Water, Sugar, Fructose, Black Tea Extract, Green Tea extract, Lemon Juice 0.01%, Acidity Regulator (E296, E330, E425), Antioxidant: E300, Flavoring

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.

  • E425 Konjac A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
  • 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 73 iced teas

From least to most processed, this one ranks 45th. 84% of the iced 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 73 iced teas, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8854698006347, last edited 9 May 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.