Zero Pink Lemonade
Processing
4
Ultra-processed
Group 4 of 4 on the NOVA scale
Additives listed
4
0 we grade moderate or higher
3 of them not yet assessed here
Nutrients
–
Nothing above the low band
Or no figures recorded at all
Three separate readings, kept apart on purpose. This is not a score, and none of it says this product is harmful.
Additives (4)
This label lists 2 thickeners and gelling agents, 1 additive and 1 sweetener.
E951
Aspartame
Artificial sweetener
What it is. An intense sweetener around 200 times sweeter than sugar, used in tiny amounts.
Why it is used. Sweetens diet drinks, sugar free gum and low calorie desserts.
What the evidence says. In 2023 IARC listed it as possibly carcinogenic, its weakest evidence tier. At the same time the expert intake committee JECFA kept the safe daily limit unchanged, noting you would need a very high daily intake to approach it, roughly a dozen or more cans of diet drink a day for an adult. So headline scary, practically low concern for normal use.
Permitted with an acceptable daily intake. People with the condition PKU must avoid it, which is why packs carry a phenylalanine note.
Assessed against IARC, JECFA, EFSA. Full entry for E951
Also on the label, not assessed here yet
- E410 Locust bean gum thickener
- E414 Acacia gum (gum arabic) thickener
- E576 Sodium gluconate other
Names and jobs come from the register of additives permitted in Great Britain, which we have not finished transcribing: a code shown without a name is a gap in our coverage, not a finding that it is unapproved. Naming one is not grading it either. Full detail appears only where we have an assessment against a named authority, so all of this describes our coverage rather than these additives. Most are common and low concern.
Ingredients
a istakably awesome taste, sugar free s with 0.5g sugars or less per 100ml are qonsidered sugar free. sparkling sugar free lemon and red berry flavour drink with sweeteners ngredients: carbonated water, fruit juices from comcentrate (1.3%) (lemon, cranberry, raspberry), adid chric acid), acidity regulator (sodium gluconate), comminuted lemon (0.4%), sweeteners (aspartame, roesulfame k), flavourings, preservative (potassium satbate), caffeine, colour (anthocyanins) stabilisers locust bean gum, acacia gum, glycerol esters of wood rasins). contains a source of phenylalanine. nutritional informaton ypical values 380ml ey,ki kcal hydrate, 9 wich sugars, 9 100ml 9/2.2 0.1 0.1 35/8 0.2 0.2 0.15 ins negligible amounts of-fat, saturates and protelin rwnce intake of an average adult (8400kj/200okcall 0ore end-see date on the cap or top of this bottle sonsumer ga 5225 3000
As printed on the pack, in the producer's own order: ingredients are listed by weight, so what comes first is most of what is in it. E numbers link to their assessment where we have one.