Fruit & Vegetable Juice, Nectars & Fruit Drinks · barcode 00025000048111
Minute Maid Watermelon Carton, 59 Fl Oz, Watermelon
Minute Maid · The Minute Maid Company
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- Recalls1 FDA recall name this barcode. Details
- Additives1 ingredient has a label or school-food rule in some states. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of fruit & vegetable juice, nectars & fruit drinks show what's typical. See levels
FDA recalls
- 2020-12-09 · Class II · Terminated The firm was notified via a consumer complaint that the product contained a long piece of metal.The Coca-Cola Company: Minute Maid WATERMELON FLAVORED FRUIT DRINK WITH OTHER NATURAL FLAVORS 59 FL OZ (1.8 QT) 1.75 L PRODUCED FOR THE COCA-COLA COMPANY ATLANTA, GA Unit UPC 0 25000 04811 1, Case UPC 000-25000-04812-8 FDA record F-0141-2021
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2023-06-29). Recipes change, so check the package you have.
Sucralose (E955)
- US (FDA): Allowed FDA approved it as a sweetener. Source
- EU: Allowed On the EU's list of approved additives as E955. (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) Source
- Louisiana: Banned in school meals from 2028-2029 school year Banned in Louisiana school food from the 2028-2029 school year (concession stands and vending machines exempt). (SB 14, Act 463 (2025)) Source
- Louisiana: Warning label required from 2028-01-01 Products containing it must carry a QR code disclosure from January 1, 2028. (SB 14, Act 463 (2025)) Source
Typical for fruit & vegetable juice, nectars & fruit drinks
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Arsenic (total): typically 0.925 ppb (FDA, 12 samples, 2018-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Perchlorate: usually below 1 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Fruit drink (5% - 25% juice), canned or bottled: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Fruit juice blend (100% juice), canned/bottled: found in 1 of 3, average 0.4, highest 1.2 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Juice, apple, bottled: found in 2 of 3, average 1.4, highest 2.7 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Juice, orange, bottled/cartoned: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Fruit drink (5% - 25% juice), canned or bottled: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Fruit juice blend (100% juice), canned/bottled: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Juice, apple, bottled: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Juice, orange, bottled/cartoned: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Fruit drink (5% - 25% juice), canned or bottled: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Fruit juice blend (100% juice), canned/bottled: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Juice, apple, bottled: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Juice, orange, bottled/cartoned: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Fruit drink (5% - 25% juice), canned or bottled: found in 1 of 3, average 0.37, highest 1.1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Fruit juice blend (100% juice), canned/bottled: found in 2 of 3, average 0.9, highest 1.4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Juice, apple, bottled: found in 3 of 3, average 2.63, highest 4.4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Juice, orange, bottled/cartoned: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Apple juice, bottled: found in 8 of 20, average 0.57, highest 2 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Fruit drink (10% juice), canned or bottled: found in 4 of 20, average 0.2, highest 1 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Fruit juice blend (100% juice), canned/bottled: found in 10 of 20, average 1.22, highest 4 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Orange juice, bottled/carton: found in 8 of 20, average 4.49, highest 33.6 ppb (2008-2012)
"Typically" is FDA's middle sample. Daily amounts use the long-run average and each chemical's daily limit (EPA reference dose, or FDA's level for lead) for a 33-lb toddler and a 154-lb adult. ppb = micrograms per kilogram of food. Source: FDA Total Diet Study.
Not tested
No published results for this product cover: Metals, Perchlorate, Phthalates (plastic softeners), Phthalate substitutes, Bisphenols. That means nobody has published a test, not that these are absent.
Ingredients (from the label)
PURE FILTERED WATER, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, WATERMELON, GRAPE, PEAR AND APPLE JUICES FROM CONCENTRATE, LESS THAN 1% OF: NATURAL FLAVORS, CITRIC ACID (PROVIDES TARTNESS), SUCRALOSE
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-06-29. Labels change; check the package.