Is Refreshmints 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
- E132 Indigotine
- E420 Sorbitol
- E470b Magnesium salts of fatty acids
- and 1 more
- 8 ingredients
- 4 additives
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
sweeteners (ultra-processing marker) (sorbitols (ultra-processing marker)), aspartame (ultra-processing marker), anti-caking agent (processing marker) (magnesium salts of fatty acids (ultra-processing marker)), flavourings (ultra-processing marker), colour (ultra-processing marker) (indigotine (ultra-processing marker))
Additives: E132 Indigotine , E420 Sorbitol , E470b Magnesium salts of fatty acids , E951 Aspartame
As written on the pack
sweeteners: sorbitols, aspartame, anti-caking agent: magnesium salts of fatty acids, flavourings, colour: indigotine,
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.
- E132 Indigotine 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.
- E420 Sorbitol Sorbitol is a sugar alcohol used as a sweetener and to keep products moist.
- E470b Magnesium salts of fatty acids 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.
- E951 Aspartame Aspartame is a synthetic sweetener about 200 times sweeter than sugar, used in diet drinks and sugar-free products.
- 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.
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- Sweetener Sweeteners give sweetness with few or no calories, many at hundreds of times the strength of sugar.
3 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.
- Candies Products in the category "Candies" are at least group 3.
- Anti-caking agent Anti-caking agents are substances which reduce the tendency of individual particles of a foodstuff to adhere to one another.
- Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.
Among 76 sugar-free chewing gum
From least to most processed, this one ranks 10th. 99% of the sugar-free chewing gum here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5707312007318, 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.
- The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.