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Is Tesco Fizzy Strawberry Flavour Lances ultra-processed?

75g Acid gummy candies Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Tesco Fizzy Strawberry Flavour Lances

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:

  • 19 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed candies

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

Sugar, Glucose-Fructose Syrup, Wheat Flour, Dextrin (Wheat), Dextrose, Palm Oil, Malic Acid, Citric Acid, Flavourings, Fruit and Vegetable Concentrates (Apple, Pumpkin, Radish, Tomato), Concentrated Strawberry Juice, Blackcurrant, Tocopherol-Rich Extract, Ascorbic Acid

Additives: E1400 Dextrin , E296 Malic acid , E300 Ascorbic acid , E306 Tocopherol-rich extract , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Sugar. Glucose-Fructose Syrup. Wheat Flour, Dextrin (Wheat). Dextrose, Palm Oil, Malic Acid. Citric Acid, Flavourings, Fruit and Vegetable Concentrates (Apple. Pumpkin, Radish. Tomato). Concentrated Strawberry Juice. Concentrated Blackcurrant Juice. Antioxidants (Tocopherol-Rich Extract. Ascorbic Acid).

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.

  • E1400 Dextrin Dextrin is starch partly broken down by heat or acid, used as a thickener, binder and coating.
  • 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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
3 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.

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

How the NOVA groups work

Among 16 acid gummy candies

From least to most processed, this one ranks 5th. 100% of the acid gummy candies 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 16 acid gummy candies, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000462822436, last edited 24 April 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.