Is Waitrose Pink grapefruit squash ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 10 ingredients
- 3 additives
- Nutri-Score B
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Pink grapefruit juice from concentrate 50%, water, sugar (processing marker), comminuted pink grapefruit from concentrate 7%, acid (citric acid), flavourings (ultra-processing marker), preservatives (processing marker) (potassium sorbate (processing marker), sodium metabisulphite)
Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate , E223 Sodium metabisulphite , E330 Citric acid
As written on the pack
Pink grapefruit juice from concentrate (50%), water, sugar, comminuted pink grapefruit from concentrate (7%), acid (citric acid), flavourings, preservatives (potassium sorbate, sodium metabisulphite)
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.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
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.
- E202 Potassium sorbate Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
- Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000169792360, last edited 2 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 B (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.