Turkey Hill Nutri-Score B NOVA 4

Southern Brewed Sweet Tea

Southern Brewed Sweet Tea: 3/5 ingredient safety

Southern Brewed Sweet Tea by Turkey Hill has 1 tracked ingredient, with an overall safety score of 3 out of 5, 1.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is B.

  • Safety score 1.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

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How This Score Is Built

PlainIngredients safety scores are a transparent, editorially-derived index synthesizing FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research into a single 1-5 scale, not an official government rating. 1 of 1 ingredient tracked for Southern Brewed Sweet Tea has a scored rating so far. Data current as of 2026-09-07.

Sourced from Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records. Verify with the FDA → See our full scoring methodology.

Where Southern Brewed Sweet Tea sits nationally

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

3 Top 98% higher than 2% 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

3
Mixed Evidence
Average ingredient safety: 3 out of 5
Based on 1 tracked ingredient
1
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
0
Low Risk / Safe
B
Nutri-Score

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

4
NOVA Group 4
Ultra-processed foods

Ultra-processed products are formulations made mostly or entirely from substances derived from foods and additives. They typically contain ingredients not commonly used in home cooking.

Full Ingredients List

WATER, CORN SYRUP, SUGAR, NATURAL FLAVORS, PHOSPHORIC ACID, BLACK TEA, POTASSIUM SORBATE & SODIUM BENZOATE (PRESERVE FRESHNESS).

Product Details

Barcode
0020735096390
Nutri-Score
Grade B
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

How does Southern Brewed Sweet Tea's safety score compare to other products?

Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Southern Brewed Sweet Tea's 3/5 average puts it in the lower 98%, 1.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What does a 3/5 ingredient safety score mean?

Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Southern Brewed Sweet Tea's 3/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it in the Mixed Evidence 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.