Is Tropicana LIGHT No Pulp ultra-processed?

Artificially sweetened beverages Sold in the United States

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Colour
Flavouring
E418 Gellan gum
E960 Steviol glycosides

13 ingredients
3 additives
Nutri-Score D

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Filtered water, not from concentrate pasteurized orange juice, orange juice, potassium citrate, citric acid, ascorbic acid (vitamin C), calcium citrate, stevia leaf extract (ultra-processing marker), natural flavors (ultra-processing marker), gellan gum (ultra-processing marker), beta-carotene (color (ultra-processing marker))

Additives: E330 Citric acid , E418 Gellan gum , E960 Steviol glycosides

As written on the pack

Filtered water, not from concentrate pasteurized orange juice, orange juice concentrate, potassium citrate, citric acid, ascorbic acid (vitamin C), calcium citrate, purified stevia leaf extract, natural flavors, gellan gum, 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.

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.
E960 Steviol glycosides Steviol glycosides are sweet compounds extracted and purified from the leaves of the stevia plant.
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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 525 artificially sweetened beverages

From least to most processed, this one ranks 142nd. 98% of the artificially sweetened 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 525 artificially sweetened beverages, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0048500205815, last edited 21 September 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.