Aluminium sodium sulphate (E521)

No. Aluminium sodium sulphate (E521) is not one of the markers Open Food Facts uses to classify a food as processed or ultra-processed, so on its own it doesn't raise a product's NOVA group.

What it is

A food additive authorised for industrial food production.

A product that contains it can still be ultra-processed for other reasons: 17 of the 19 products here that contain aluminium sodium sulphate (E521) (89%) are in group 4 because of other ingredients or additives.

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Where it turns up

Aluminium sodium sulphate (E521) appears in 19 of the 40,000 products on this site (0%).

Products containing aluminium sodium sulphate (E521)

How the NOVA classification works