Is Ananas Sativus Fruit Juice natural?

Q: Is Ananas Sativus Fruit Juice natural?

Ananas Sativus Fruit Juice has a Natural Origin Index (NOI) of 1.00 (scale 0–1) per ISO 16128. Juice pressed directly from pineapple fruit; entire ingredient is natural plant matter. An NOI of 1.00 means 100% of its molecular mass is traceable to a natural, renewable source.

Yes. Juice pressed directly from pineapple fruit; entire ingredient is natural plant matter.

INCI nameAnanas Sativus Fruit Juice

FunctionSkin Conditioning

FeedstockProduced by pressing (expressing) juice from fresh pineapple…

How we scored it

Expressed fruit juice; whole ingredient counts as natural plant material by this site's convention.

What counts. ISO 16128-2 scores the atoms that remain in the final ingredient. Reagents, solvents, catalysts and protecting groups used during manufacture leave no mass behind and are not counted.

Where it comes from

Produced by pressing (expressing) juice from fresh pineapple fruit. No alternative synthetic route exists for a fruit juice.

In plain English

The juice pressed from fresh pineapple fruit, used in skincare to help condition the skin.

CosIng definition: Ananas Sativus Fruit Juice is the liquid expressed from the fruit of the pineapple, Ananas sativus, Bromeliaceae

References

1ISO 16128-1:2016 and ISO 16128-2:2017 — Guidelines on technical definitions and criteria for natural and organic cosmetic ingredients and products. ISO, Geneva.
2ANANAS SATIVUS FRUIT JUICE. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
3ANANAS SATIVUS FRUIT JUICE. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=ANANAS%20SATIVUS%20FRUIT%20JUICE