Is Pacific Foods Ultra Soy Milk - Original ultra-processed?

946ml Soy-based drinks Sold in the United States

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Flavouring
E101 Riboflavin
E410 Locust bean gum
E418 Gellan gum

20 ingredients
4 additives
Nutri-Score B

Less processed soy-based drinks

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, soybeans, cane sugar (processing marker), CONTAINS 1% and LESS OF (gellan gum (ultra-processing marker)), locust bean gum (ultra-processing marker), natural flavor (ultra-processing marker), riboflavin (ultra-processing marker), sea salt (processing marker), tricalcium phosphate, vitamin a palmitate, vitamins, vitamin B6, pyridoxine hydrochloride, vitamin b12 (cyanocobalamin), vitamins, vitamin D2, vitamin e (d-alpha tocopheryl acetate)

Additives: E101 Riboflavin , E101i Riboflavin , E410 Locust bean gum , E418 Gellan gum

As written on the pack

WATER, ORGANIC SOYBEANS, CANE SUGAR, CONTAINS 1% OR LESS OF: GELLAN GUM, LOCUST BEAN GUM, NATURAL FLAVOR, RIBOFLAVIN (VITAMIN B2), SEA SALT, TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, VITAMIN B6 (PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE), VITAMIN B12 (CYANOCOBALAMIN), VITAMIN D2, VITAMIN E (D-ALPHA TOCOPHERYL ACETATE).

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.

E101 Riboflavin 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.
E410 Locust bean gum Locust bean gum (carob gum) is a thickener and stabiliser from the seeds of the carob tree.
E418 Gellan gum Stabilisers are substances which make it possible to maintain the physico-chemical state of a foodstuff; stabilisers include substances which enable the maintenance of a homogenous dispersion of two or more immiscible substances in a foodstuff, substances which stabilise, retain or intensify an existing colour of a foodstuff and substances which increase the binding capacity of the food, including the formation of cross-links between proteins enabling the binding of food pieces into re-constituted food.
Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

2 ingredients that would only make it processed

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 100 soy-based drinks

From least to most processed, this one ranks 91st. 80% of the soy-based 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 100 soy-based drinks, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0052603082006, last edited 17 February 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 B (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.