Lipton Iced Tea Lemon plastic bottle

Breakdown

5 ingredients to avoid

Lipton Iced Tea Lemon plastic bottle 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.

Lipton Iced Tea Lemon plastic bottle lists 11 ingredients, starting with High Fructose Corn Syrup, Clarified Lemon Juice Concentrate, Sodium Polyphosphates, Black Tea and Natural Flavor. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

At 15/100 Lipton Iced Tea Lemon plastic bottle 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.