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Is Pure Plus Aloe Vera Drink ultra-processed?

Aloe Vera drinks Sold in the United States

Pack of Pure Plus Aloe Vera Drink

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:

  • 10 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed aloe Vera 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

Purified water, sugar, aloe vera gel, citric acid, vitamin c, aloe vera flavor, calcium lactate, sodium citrate, gellan gum, beta-carotene

Additives: E327 Calcium lactate , E330 Citric acid , E331 Sodium citrates , E418 Gellan gum

As written on the pack

Purified water, sugar, aloe vera gel, citric acid, vitamin c, aloe vera flavor, calcium lactate, sodium citrate, gellan gum, beta-carotene.

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.

  • E327 Calcium lactate Thickeners are substances which increase the viscosity of a foodstuff.
  • 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.
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 12 aloe Vera drinks

From least to most processed, this one ranks 7th. 83% of the aloe Vera 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 12 aloe Vera drinks, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8809125063011, last edited 6 May 2024), 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.