Food · Gatorade
Gatorade Lemon-Lime
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Okay nutrition · Ultra-processed · per 100 ml
Ultra-processed — built with extras a kitchen wouldn’t use. Better as a rare treat, not a Good rating.
Better than most of Drinks — 51 of 88 sit at or below this number.
A 330 ml can is about 20 g of sugar — roughly 5 teaspoons. A can a day this week is about 35 teaspoons. Per 100 ml hides that.
Council note
Ultra-processed — flavours, extras, a list a kitchen would not write. A 330 ml can is about 20 g of sugar. The colour (Tartrazine) is cosmetic, not food. A dietitian would not make this a weekday habit. Better than most of Drinks — 51 of 88 sit at or below this number.
Watch-outs
Artificial colour
Tartrazine
The pack
Ultra-processed — built with extras a kitchen wouldn’t use. Better as a rare treat, not a Good rating.
How often
Rarely
Who it’s for
Anyone comparing similar products in this aisle.
Skip if
It clashes with the notes you keep in your profile — allergens, diet, or extras you asked us to flag.
- Okay nutrition cannot be rated Excellent
- Ultra-processed food cannot be rated Good
- An okay nutrition box
At a glance
How often
Rarely
Nutrition box
Okay
How processed
Ultra-processed
Extras
4 additives
Planet
Mixed footprint · 52/100
Organic
Not organic
Built in a factory with additives, flavours, or refined extras. Cannot be rated Good — a rare treat, not a habit.
Some good signs, some industrial ones. Not the heaviest in the aisle.
No shelf price logged yet. When a shopper posts a receipt to Open Prices, it lands here.
Why this number
Ultra-processed — built with extras a kitchen wouldn’t use. Better as a rare treat, not a Good rating.
Poor · 49/100 · nutrition okay
- Nutrition quality52/100
- Ingredients81/100
- How processed16/100
- Organic0/100
What pulled it down
Okay nutrition cannot be rated Excellent
The box is middling. That is fine as a sometimes food. It is not everyday Excellent.
Ultra-processed food cannot be rated Good
A factory recipe — flavours, colours, or many additives — cannot be rated Good. A sometimes treat, not a daily habit.
An okay nutrition box
About 1.5 teaspoons of sugar in 100 ml. Nothing in the bottle slows that sugar down — no fibre, no protein. Middling — fine sometimes.
Ultra-processed
Built in a factory with additives, flavours, or refined extras. A growing pile of research ties a diet of these to poorer health — not because one biscuit is poison, but because the pattern crowds out real food.
Tartrazine
-14Azo dye linked to hyperactivity in sensitive children. EFSA ADI 7.5 mg/kg.
Natural flavouring
-5Undisclosed mixture. Usually low toxicological risk, poor transparency.
Nutrition is half the number. Ingredients a quarter. How processed a fifth. Organic is a small bonus — it cannot rescue a sugary drink or a nitrite ham. How this compares to Nutri-Score
Nutrition · per 100 ml
| Energy | 103 kJ |
|---|---|
| Sugars | 6 gMedium About 1.5 teaspoons of sugar in 100 ml. |
| Saturated fat | 0 gLow |
| Salt | 0.11 gLow Light on salt. |
| Fibre | 0 g |
| Protein | 0 g |
Better neighbours
Same aisle, cleaner number. Ranked by how close the job is — not by who paid.
Ingredients
Water, sugar, dextrose, citric acid, salt, sodium citrate, monopotassium phosphate, flavouring, yellow 5.
TartrazineE102
−14Linked to restlessness in some children. You don’t need yellow food to be yellow.
Extra care for children
Sugar
Low concernNot a toxin. A teaspoon is a teaspoon. The issue is how many hide in drinks and breakfast.
Natural flavouring
−5Not a toxin. A sign the recipe needed a perfume. You cannot tell what is inside from the words.
Water
No concernNo concern. The best everyday pour.
Citric acidE330
No concernNo health concern at usual levels.
Sodium citratesE331
No concernLow concern.
Salt
No concernThe nutrition box already scores it. A pinch in cooking is not a packet of noodles.
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