Lemonade

Name: Lemonade
Brand: Minute Maid

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Ingredients · 11

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Common questions

Is Minute Maid Lemonade healthy?

Minute Maid Lemonade scores 5/100 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.

What is in Minute Maid Lemonade?

Minute Maid Lemonade lists 11 ingredients, starting with Pure Filtered Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Lemon Juice From Concentrate, Citric Acid and Modified Corn Starch. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

Does Minute Maid Lemonade contain seed oils?

No. Nothing in Minute Maid Lemonade’s ingredient list matches a seed oil — canola, soybean, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, sunflower, safflower, rice bran or peanut oil, or an unspecified "vegetable oil".

How processed is Minute Maid Lemonade?

Minute Maid Lemonade is NOVA group 4: ultra-processed. That is the top of the scale and the classification the score penalises most heavily.

How does Minute Maid Lemonade compare to other juices?

At 5/100 Minute Maid Lemonade scores worse than most juices we have scored. A higher-scoring option in juices is Trader Joe's Organic 100% Sicilian Lemon Juice at 100/100.

Is Minute Maid Lemonade organic?

Minute Maid Lemonade is not certified organic in our data.

Full methodology: how we score products.