Minute Maid Pulpy Orange — DUMP

Munch or Dump rates Minute Maid Pulpy Orange by Coca Cola Company DUMP — score 20/90.

Sugar water with a splash of juice, dyed orange with artificial colors and propped up with artificial flavor.

Why this verdict

• Added sugar is the #2 ingredient, ahead of the actual orange juice
• Only 10.5% juice, reconstituted from concentrate, not fresh-squeezed
• Artificial colors Sunset Yellow (110) and Tartrazine (102) fake the orange hue
• Relies on artificial flavoring substances to taste like fruit
• Liquid sugar with no fiber spikes blood sugar fast

Ingredients (8)

• Water (safe) — First ingredient by weight; this pudding is mostly water, not milk.
• Sugar (moderate) — Added sugar sitting ahead of cocoa; the main flavor driver here.
• Orange Juice (10.5%, reconstituted from concentrate & pulp cells) (moderate) — Real but minimal juice, rebuilt from concentrate. The pulp is the marketing hook, but it's only a tenth of the drink.
• Acidity regulators (330 citric acid, 331(iii) trisodium citrate) (safe) — Common, well-tolerated acids that balance tartness.
• Antioxidant (300 ascorbic acid) (safe) — Vitamin C added to prevent browning; mildly positive but functional, not nutritional.
• Colour Sunset Yellow FCF (110) (harmful) — A synthetic azo dye giving the orange hue; flagged in the Southampton study for increasing hyperactivity in children and carries a warning label in the EU.
• Colour Tartrazine (102) (concerning) — Artificial yellow azo dye, another Southampton-six color flagged for behavioral effects; no nutritional purpose.
• Orange Flavours (natural, nature-identical and artificial) (moderate) — A flavor stack including artificial substances doing the work real fruit should do.