Is Robinsons Barley Water Orange 850ml ultra-processed?

1 Orange soft drinks Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Colour
Sweetener
E954 Saccharin and its salts

16 ingredients
5 additives

Less processed orange soft 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, Sugar (processing marker), Orange Juice from Concentrate 17%, Barley Flour 2.5%, Acid (Citric Acid), Preservatives (processing marker) (Potassium Sorbate (processing marker), Sodium Metabisulphite), Antioxidant (Ascorbic Acid), Sweetener (ultra-processing marker) (Saccharin (ultra-processing marker)), Natural Orange Flavouring with other Natural Flavourings, Natural Colour (ultra-processing marker) (Carotenes)

Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate , E223 Sodium metabisulphite , E300 Ascorbic acid , E330 Citric acid , E954 Saccharin and its salts

As written on the pack

Water, Sugar, Orange Juice from Concentrate (17%), Barley Flour (2.5%), Acid (Citric Acid), Preservatives (Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Metabisulphite), Antioxidant (Ascorbic Acid), Sweetener (Saccharin), Natural Orange Flavouring with other Natural Flavourings, Natural Colour (Carotenes)

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.

E954 Saccharin and its salts Sweeteners are substances used to impart a sweet taste to foods or in table-top sweeteners.
Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
Sweetener Sweeteners give sweetness with few or no calories, many at hundreds of times the strength of sugar.

4 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.

E202 Potassium sorbate Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
Sodas Products in the category "Sodas" are at least group 3.
Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 31 orange soft drinks

From least to most processed, this one ranks 10th. 90% of the orange soft 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 31 orange soft drinks, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5010102113275, last edited 9 June 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.
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.