Carrick Glen Vitamin Water Drink Apple and Elderflower plastic bottle

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Ultra-processed · 4 ingredients to avoid

Carrick Glen Vitamin Water Drink Apple and Elderflower plastic bottle scores 9/100 on Tallow — our avoid band. That number comes from what is on the label: the ingredients, how processed it is, and what it is packaged in. It is not a verdict on your diet — Tallow does not weigh calories, portion size or how often you eat it, so a high score means the ingredients are clean, not that the food is unlimited.

Carrick Glen Vitamin Water Drink Apple and Elderflower plastic bottle lists 23 ingredients, starting with Spring Water, Organic Apple Juice From Concentrate, Citric Acid, Organic Yerba Mate Extract and Natural Flavourings. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

At 9/100 Carrick Glen Vitamin Water Drink Apple and Elderflower plastic bottle scores worse than most water we have scored. A higher-scoring option in water is Great Value Purified Drinking Water at 100/100.