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Is Waterfords Lemon Lime Bitters Diet ultra-processed?

1.25L Sodas Sold in Australia and France

Pack of Waterfords Lemon Lime Bitters Diet

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:

  • 13 ingredients
  • 5 additives

Less processed sodas

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

carbonated mineral water, juice (lemon 4.5%, lime 0.5%), food acid (citric), flavour preservative (211), sweeteners (952, 950‚955), colour (122)

Additives: E122 Azorubine , E211 Sodium benzoate , E950 Acesulfame k , E952 Cyclamic acid and its Na and Ca salts , E955 Sucralose

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E122 Azorubine, E950 Acesulfame k, E952 Cyclamic acid and its Na and Ca salts, E955 Sucralose.

As written on the pack

CARBONATED MINERAL WATER,RECONSTITUTED JUICE [LEMON (4.5%), LIME (0.5%)], FOOD ACID (CITRIC), FLAVOUR PRESERVATIVE (211), SWEETENERS (952, 950,955), COLOUR (122).

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.

  • E122 Azorubine Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • E950 Acesulfame k Acesulfame K is a synthetic sweetener about 200 times sweeter than sugar, often combined with aspartame or sucralose.
  • E952 Cyclamic acid and its Na and Ca salts Sweeteners are substances used to impart a sweet taste to foods or in table-top sweeteners.
  • E955 Sucralose Sucralose is a sweetener made by chlorinating sugar.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Sweetener Sweeteners give sweetness with few or no calories, many at hundreds of times the strength of sugar.
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.

  • Sodas Products in the category "Sodas" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 613 sodas

From least to most processed, this one ranks 504th. 94% of the sodas 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 613 sodas, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 9345905000740, last edited 13 May 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.