Maaza Mango Fruit Drink — BULLSHIT

Munch or Dump rates Maaza Mango Fruit Drink by Maaza BULLSHIT — score 0/90.

Sold as 'real mango' with 'no artificial flavours or colours,' but it's mostly sugar water with only 11.5% mango pulp, artificial colour, artificial sweetener, and artificial flavours.

Why this verdict

• Package sells 'real mango' / 'no artificial colours or flavours' but the label lists artificial colour and artificial flavours
• Only 11.5% mango pulp; the rest is water, sugar, and additives
• Sugar is the #2 ingredient, with an artificial sweetener (sucralose) stacked on top
• Synthetic dye Sunset Yellow (110) does the visual work real mango can't
• NOVA 4 ultra-processed sugar drink, not a fruit juice

Ingredients (9)

• Water (safe) — Added back as a filler/texture agent; harmless but dilutes.
• Mango pulp (11.5%) (safe) — The only real fruit, and there's very little of it.
• Sugar (concerning) — Added sugar, third by weight, feeds yeast and adds sweetness with no nutritional benefit.
• Acidity Regulators (330, 331) (safe) — Citric acid / citrate for tartness and pH; benign.
• Stabilizer (466) (moderate) — Carboxymethyl cellulose keeps the pulp suspended; a processing additive with no nutritional value.
• Antioxidant (300) (safe) — Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) used as a dough improver; benign.
• Sweetener (960) (moderate) — Sucralose, an artificial sweetener stacked on top of the sugar to boost sweetness.
• Colour (110) (concerning) — Sunset Yellow FCF, a synthetic azo dye linked to hyperactivity concerns; purely cosmetic.
• Mango flavours (nature-identical & artificial) (moderate) — Lab flavouring that carries most of the 'mango' taste the small amount of pulp can't.