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Is Oishi Green Tea Pomegranate ultra-processed?

500ml Green teas Sold in the United States

Pack of Oishi Green Tea Pomegranate

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:

  • 12 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed green 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

Green Tea 88.5%, Sugar 9%, Fructose 2%, Pomegranate Juice 0.2% (from pomegranate), Food Additives, 696, e330, e331i, Artificial Colour, e110, e122 Nature identical flavour added

Additives: E110 Sunset yellow FCF , E122 Azorubine , E330 Citric acid , E331 Sodium citrates , E331i Monosodium citrate

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E122 Azorubine.

As written on the pack

Green Tea 88.5%, Sugar 9.0%, Fructose 2.0%, Pomegranate Juice (from pomegranate concentrate) 0.2%, Food Additives (696, INS330, INS331 (i), Artificial Colour (INS110, INS122 Nature identical flavour added

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.

  • E110 Sunset yellow FCF Sunset yellow FCF is a synthetic orange azo dye (FD&C Yellow No. 6 in the US).
  • E122 Azorubine Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.

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 50 green teas

From least to most processed, this one ranks 47th. 34% of the green 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 50 green teas, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8854698013574, last edited 19 May 2023), 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.