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Is Robinsons Pressed Pear & Elderflower Fruit Cordial ultra-processed?

500 ml Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Robinsons Pressed Pear & Elderflower Fruit Cordial

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:

  • 12 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Water Sugar, Pear Juice from concentrate 14%, acid (citric acid), natural pear and elderflower flavoring with other natural flavorings, acidity regulator (sodium citrate), preservatives (potassium forbade, sodium metabisulphite), sweetener (Steviol glycosides)

Additives: E223 Sodium metabisulphite , E330 Citric acid , E331 Sodium citrates , E960 Steviol glycosides

As written on the pack

Water Sugar, Pear Juice from concentrate (14%), acid (citric acid), natural pear and elderflower flavoring with other natural flavorings, acidity regulator (sodium citrate), preservatives (potassium forbade, sodium metabisulphite), sweetener (Steviol glycosides).

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.

  • E960 Steviol glycosides Steviol glycosides are sweet compounds extracted and purified from the leaves of the stevia plant.
  • Sweetener Sweeteners give sweetness with few or no calories, many at hundreds of times the strength of sugar.
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.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5010102240483, 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.