Is Trip Elderflower Mint ultra-processed?

250 ml Carbonated fruit soft drink 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:

Flavour enhancer
Sweetener
Fruit juice concentrate
E968 Erythritol

16 ingredients
3 additives

Less processed carbonated fruit soft drink

Boisson petillante Belvoir Fleur de Surea Belvoir Fruit Farms 5 ingredients · 1 additive NOVA group 3
Lemonaid+ Blood Orange Lemonaid 8 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 3
Elderflower Lemonade Cawston Press 6 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 3
Sparking wild elderflower pressé 5 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 3

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

Sparkling water, fruit juices from concentrate (ultra-processing marker) 21% (apple, grapefruit), flavour enhancer (ultra-processing marker) (erythritol (ultra-processing marker)), botanical extracts (elderflower, mint, lemon balm, chamomile), citric acid, natural sweetener (ultra-processing marker) (steviol glycosides from stevia), L-theanine, CBD

Additives: E330 Citric acid , E960a Steviol glycosides from Stevia , E968 Erythritol

As written on the pack

Sparkling water, fruit juices from concentrate 21% (apple, grapefruit), flavour enhancer (erythritol), botanical extracts (elderflower, mint, lemon balm, chamomile), citric acid, natural sweetener (steviol glycosides from stevia), L-theanine, CBD (soya).

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.

E968 Erythritol Humectants are substances which prevent foods from drying out by counteracting the effect of an atmosphere having a low degree of humidity, or promote the dissolution of a powder in an aqueous medium.
Flavour enhancer Flavour enhancers such as monosodium glutamate (E621) strengthen savoury taste without adding a flavour of their own.
Sweetener Sweeteners give sweetness with few or no calories, many at hundreds of times the strength of sugar.

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.

Fruit juice concentrate An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 45 carbonated fruit soft drink

From least to most processed, this one ranks 25th. 84% of the carbonated fruit soft drink 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 45 carbonated fruit soft drink, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5070000120706, last edited 9 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.
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.