Is prime hydration strawberry & banana ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- Colour
- Flavouring
- Sweetener
- E160a Carotene
- E414 Acacia gum
- E445 Glycerol esters of wood rosin
- and 3 more
- 23 ingredients
- 9 additives
- Nutri-Score C
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
water, coconut water, acid (citric acid), dipotassium phosphate, flavouring (ultra-processing marker), sweeteners (ultra-processing marker) (sucralose (ultra-processing marker), acesulfame K (ultra-processing marker)), L-isoleucine, L-leucine (ultra-processing marker), L-valine, black carrot concentrate, stabilisers (gum arabic (ultra-processing marker), glycerol esters of wood rosin (ultra-processing marker)), vitamins, vitamin E, vitamin B6, vitamin A, colour (ultra-processing marker) (carotene (ultra-processing marker)), vitamin B12
Additives: E160a Carotene , E330 Citric acid , E340 Potassium phosphates , E340ii Dipotassium phosphate , E414 Acacia gum , E445 Glycerol esters of wood rosin , E641 Leucine , E950 Acesulfame k , E955 Sucralose
As written on the pack
water, reconstituted powdered coconut water, acid (citric acid), dipotassium phosphate, flavouring, sweeteners (sucralose, acesulfame K), L-isoleucine, L-leucine, L-valine, black carrot concentrate, stabilisers (gum arabic, glycerol esters of wood rosin), vitamin E, vitamin B6, vitamin A, colour (carotene), vitamin B12
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.
- E160a Carotene Carotenes are orange-yellow pigments, either synthesised or extracted from carrots, algae or palm oil.
- E414 Acacia gum Gum arabic (acacia gum) is the hardened sap of acacia trees, used to stabilise flavour emulsions in soft drinks and to coat sweets.
- E445 Glycerol esters of wood rosin Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.
- E641 Leucine A food additive authorised for industrial food production.
- E950 Acesulfame k Acesulfame K is a synthetic sweetener about 200 times sweeter than sugar, often combined with aspartame or sucralose.
- E955 Sucralose Sucralose is a sweetener made by chlorinating sugar.
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- Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
- Sweetener Sweeteners give sweetness with few or no calories, many at hundreds of times the strength of sugar.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0810116124015, last edited 27 March 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.