Organic Tropical Uprising Yerba Mate

How it scored 60 / 100

Nutrition snapshot

Ingredients 14 listed

• 1 Filtered Water
  Water that has passed through a filtration process to remove impurities.
  Safe
• 2 Cane Sugar
  Sucrose (a disaccharide of glucose and fructose) crystallized from sugar cane juice; chemically identical to beet sugar.
  Moderate
• 3 Mate
  Tea-like infusion from leaves of Ilex paraguariensis (yerba mate).
  Low
• 4 Roselle Flower
  Calyx of Hibiscus sabdariffa, used dried for tea and as natural coloring/flavoring.
  Safe
• 5 Mango Puree
  Pulp obtained from ripe mango fruit (Mangifera indica), pureed and optionally pasteurized.
  Safe
• 6 Yerba Mate Extract
  Concentrated extract of Ilex paraguariensis leaves; contains caffeine, theobromine, polyphenols.
  Moderate
• 7 Concentrated Pineapple Juice
  Pineapple juice that has had a portion of its water removed to concentrate sugars and flavors.
  Low
• 8 Citric Acid
  Citric acid (E330), a weak organic acid naturally present in citrus fruit and produced commercially via Aspergillus niger fermentation.
  Low
• 9 guava natural flavor —
• 10 Apple
  Fruit of Malus domestica, eaten fresh or used in cooking and processing.
  Safe
• 11 Natural Flavouring
  A regulatory umbrella term (21 CFR 101.22) for flavor extracts derived from spices, fruit, vegetable, herb, bark, root, leaf, meat, seafood,…
  Low
• 12 Caffeine
  A naturally occurring methylxanthine alkaloid (1,3,7-trimethylxanthine) and central nervous system stimulant.
  Moderate
• 13 Rebaudioside A
  A high-purity steviol glycoside extracted from Stevia rebaudiana leaves; one of several non-nutritive sweeteners derived from stevia.
  Low
• 14 Steviol Glycosides
  Sweet glycoside compounds (rebaudioside A, stevioside, etc.) extracted from leaves of Stevia rebaudiana, 200-300x sweeter than sucrose.
  Low