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Is Suave Flavored Fruit Juice Cocktail Blend ultra-processed?

Plant-based beverages Sold in the United States

Pack of Suave Flavored Fruit Juice Cocktail Blend

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:

  • 20 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed plant-based beverages

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

filtered water, white grape juice from concentrate (filtered water, white grape juice concentrate), high fructose corn syrup, granulated sugar, apple juice from concentrate (filtered water, apple juice), passion fruit juice (filtered water, passion fruit juice), citric acid (for tartness), pectin, natural flavor, ascorbic acid (vitamin c), beta carotene (color)

Additives: E300 Ascorbic acid , E330 Citric acid , E440 Pectins

As written on the pack

filtered water, white grape juice from concentrate (filtered water, white grape juice concentrate), high fructose corn syrup, granulated sugar, apple juice from concentrate (filtered water, apple juice concentrate), passion fruit juice from concentrate (filtered water, passion fruit juice concentrate), citric acid (for tartness), pectin, natural flavor, ascorbic acid (vitamin c), beta carotene (color),

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.

  • E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • 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.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • High fructose corn syrup High-fructose corn syrup is made from corn starch: enzymes break it down to glucose and convert part of that into fructose, giving a syrup about as sweet as table sugar.
  • Fruit juice concentrate An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
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 1,803 plant-based beverages

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1757th. 55% of the plant-based beverages 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 1,803 plant-based beverages, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0041800401277, last edited 11 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.