Is San Pellegrino Limonata ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 12 ingredients
- 4 additives
- Nutri-Score D
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
water, lemon juice from concentrate 16%, sugar (processing marker), carbon dioxide (ultra-processing marker), natural lemon flavouring (ultra-processing marker), natural flavourings (ultra-processing marker), stabiliser (pectins (ultra-processing marker)), acid (citric acid), sweetener (ultra-processing marker) (steviol glycosides from stevia)
Additives: E290 Carbon dioxide , E330 Citric acid , E440 Pectins , E960a Steviol glycosides from Stevia
As written on the pack
water, lemon juice from concentrate (16%), sugar, carbon dioxide, natural lemon flavouring, natural flavourings, stabiliser: pectins, acid: citric acid, sweetener: steviol glycosides from stevia
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.
- E290 Carbon dioxide 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.
- E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
- 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.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8002270126918, last edited 8 September 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 D (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.