Food · Pepsi
Mountain Dew
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Weak nutrition · Ultra-processed · per 100 ml
A weak nutrition box and an ultra-processed recipe. A treat in a bottle, not a weekday pour.
Worse than 10 in 10 packs in Drinks. The swap is on this aisle.
A 330 ml can is about 43 g of sugar — roughly 11 teaspoons. A can a day this week is about 77 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 43 g of sugar. The colour (Tartrazine) is cosmetic, not food. A dietitian would not make this a weekday habit. Worse than 10 in 10 packs in Drinks. The swap is on this aisle.
Watch-outs
Artificial colours
Tartrazine, Sunset yellow FCF
The pack
A weak nutrition box and an ultra-processed recipe. A treat in a bottle, not a weekday pour.
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.
- A weak nutrition box cannot be rated Good
- Ultra-processed food cannot be rated Good
- A cluster of extras blocks Excellent or Good
At a glance
How often
Rarely
Nutrition box
Weak
How processed
Ultra-processed
Extras
5 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
A weak nutrition box and an ultra-processed recipe. A treat in a bottle, not a weekday pour.
Poor · 29/100 · nutrition weak
- Nutrition quality22/100
- Ingredients59/100
- How processed16/100
- Organic0/100
What pulled it down
A weak nutrition box cannot be rated Good
Sugars, salt or saturated fat dominate this box. Poor at best — a treat, not a habit.
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.
A cluster of extras blocks Excellent or Good
A cluster of extras keeps this at Poor: a sometimes product, not a habit.
A weak nutrition box
About 3.3 teaspoons of sugar in 100 ml. Nothing in the bottle slows that sugar down — no fibre, no protein. Sugars, salt or saturated fat dominate.
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.
Sunset yellow FCF
-14Azo dye associated with hypersensitivity and hyperactivity.
Natural flavouring
-5Undisclosed mixture. Usually low toxicological risk, poor transparency.
Azo dye mix
-82 synthetic colours (the Southampton six family) sit on this pack. Linked to hyperactivity in sensitive children.
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 | 230 kJ |
|---|---|
| Sugars | 13 gHigh About 3.3 teaspoons of sugar in 100 ml — a can would be a lot more. |
| Saturated fat | 0 gLow |
| Salt | 0.06 gLow Light on salt. |
| Fibre | 0 g |
| Protein | 0 g |
| Fruit, veg, nuts | 1 % |
Better neighbours
Same aisle, cleaner number. Ranked by how close the job is — not by who paid.
Ingredients
Carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup, concentrated orange juice, citric acid, natural flavour, sodium benzoate, caffeine, yellow 5.
TartrazineE102
−14Linked to restlessness in some children. You don’t need yellow food to be yellow.
Extra care for children
Sunset yellow FCFE110
−14Another dye tied to children’s behaviour in some studies.
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.
Carbon dioxideE290
No concernNo concern. It’s the sparkle, not the sugar.
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