Is PurAqua Hydration With Electrolytes ultra-processed?

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Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Dextrose
Flavouring
Glucose
Maltodextrin
E414 Acacia gum

17 ingredients
4 additives
Nutri-Score E

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

sugar (processing marker), dextrose (ultra-processing marker), citric acid, salt (processing marker), potassium citrate, sodium citrate, dipotassium phosphate, maltodextrin (ultra-processing marker), ascorbic acid, gum arabic (ultra-processing marker), silicon dioxide, stevia rebaudiana leaf extract, natural flavor (ultra-processing marker), niacinamide, d-calcium pantothenate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, cyanocobalamin

Additives: E330 Citric acid , E340 Potassium phosphates , E340ii Dipotassium phosphate , E414 Acacia gum

As written on the pack

sugar, dextrose, citric acid, salt, potassium citrate, sodium citrate, dipotassium phosphate, maltodextrin, ascorbic acid, gum arabic, silicon dioxide, stevia rebaudiana leaf extract, natural flavor, niacinamide, d-calcium pantothenate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, cyanocobalamin

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.

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.
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.

Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.

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

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4061462576591, last edited 6 October 2025), 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.