Is Simplee Aloe Vera with Bits ultra-processed?

500ml Aloe Vera drinks Sold in the United Kingdom

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Flavouring
E418 Gellan gum

13 ingredients
2 additives
Nutri-Score C

Less processed aloe Vera 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, aloe vera 20%, sugar (processing marker), natural flavouring (ultra-processing marker), multivitamins, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin B1, vitamin B6, vitamin D3, gellan gum (ultra-processing marker), citric acid, stevia extract

Additives: E330 Citric acid , E418 Gellan gum

As written on the pack

Water, aloe vera (20%), sugar, natural flavouring, multivitamins (A,C,B1, B6, D3), gellan gum, citric acid, stevia extract

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.

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.

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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 12 aloe Vera drinks

From least to most processed, this one ranks 5th. 83% of the aloe Vera 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 12 aloe Vera drinks, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060403010315, last edited 27 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.
NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of C (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.