Great Value Iced tea with lemon drink mix

Breakdown

10 ingredients to avoid

Great Value Iced tea with lemon drink mix scores 15/100 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.

Great Value Iced tea with lemon drink mix lists 17 ingredients, starting with Citric Acid, Maltodextrin, Instant Tea, Cultured Corn Syrup Solids and Aspartame and Neohesperidin Dc. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

At 15/100 Great Value Iced tea with lemon drink mix scores worse than most tea we have scored. A higher-scoring option in tea is Best Foods Earl Grey Organic Black Tea at 100/100.