Pure Leaf Sweet Tea

Pure Leaf Sweet Tea: 5/5 ingredient safety

Pure Leaf Sweet Tea by Lipton, Pepsi, Pure Leaf, Unilever has 1 tracked ingredient, with an overall safety score of 5 out of 5, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E.

  • Safety score 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 3

Beverages and beverages preparations / Plant-based foods and beverages / Beverages / Hot beverages / Plant-based beverages / Teas / Tea-based beverages / Iced teas

How This Score Is Built

Pure Leaf Sweet Tea draws on FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research, combined into a single editorially-derived 1-5 scale (never an official government rating). 1 of its 1 tracked ingredient is scored so far; data as of 2026-09-07.

Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records feed this score. The FDA site → has the primary record; our methodology page explains the scoring.

Where Pure Leaf Sweet Tea sits nationally

Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients

5 Top 15% higher than 85% of 58,710 scored products

Average ingredient safety score (1 = highest risk, 5 = safest), bucketed by value

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Source PlainIngredients ingredient safety index · 2026-09-07

5
Generally Safe
Average ingredient safety: 5 out of 5
Based on 1 tracked ingredient
1
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
1
Low Risk / Safe
E
Nutri-Score

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

3
NOVA Group 3
Processed foods

Processed foods are relatively simple products made by adding salt, oil, sugar, or other culinary ingredients to whole foods.

Full Ingredients List

Brewed black tea, sugar, citric acid

Product Details

Barcode
0012000286193
Nutri-Score
Grade E
NOVA Group
3 — Processed foods
Available In
France,United States
Stores
Big Y

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Frequently asked questions

How does Pure Leaf Sweet Tea's safety score compare to other products?

With an average ingredient safety score of 5/5, Pure Leaf Sweet Tea sits ahead of 85% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What does a 5/5 ingredient safety score mean?

PlainIngredients scores each ingredient 1 (highest risk) to 5 (safest) from FDA and EU regulatory status, then averages the scores of every ingredient this product lists that we could map. A 5/5 average places Pure Leaf Sweet Tea in the Generally Safe tier.

Every figure on PlainIngredients is rendered directly from FDA, EU, EFSA and U.S. state regulatory records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.