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Is Sappe Public Company Limited Mogu Mogu melon flavored drink ultra-processed?

32 cl Lemonades Sold in the United States, France and Morocco

Pack of Sappe Public Company Limited Mogu Mogu melon flavored 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:

  • 12 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed lemonades

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 72.57%, nata de coco 15%, fructose 7%, sugar 5%, citric acid, calcium lactate, nature identical flavor (melon), sodium benzoate, gellan gum, tartrazine, brilliant blue

Additives: E102 Tartrazine , E211 Sodium benzoate , E327 Calcium lactate , E330 Citric acid , E418 Gellan gum

As written on the pack

water 72.57%, nata de coco 15%, fructose 7%, sugar 5%, acidity regulators (citric acid, calcium lactate), nature identical flavor (melon), preservative (sodium benzoate), added gelling agent (gellan gum), artificial colors (tartrazine, brilliant blue).

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.

  • E102 Tartrazine Tartrazine is a synthetic yellow azo dye (FD&C Yellow No. 5 in the US).
  • 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.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

Substances rarely used in home kitchens

Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
2 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.

  • Sodas Products in the category "Sodas" are at least group 3.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 19 lemonades

From least to most processed, this one ranks 18th. 79% of the lemonades 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 19 lemonades, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8850389111352, last edited 30 August 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.