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Is Aldi 10 Vegetable Gyozas ultra-processed?

210g Vegetables Sold in Ireland

Pack of Aldi 10 Vegetable Gyozas

Yes, it's ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 31 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed vegetables

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Vegetable Gyoza 75.43859649122807% (Wheat Flour, Cabbage, Carrot, Cottonseed Oil, Peas, Onion, Water, Radish, Tapioca Starch, Shiitake Mushrooms, Sugar, Spring Onions, Cornflour, Garlic Purée, Sesame Oil, Salt, White Pepper), Soy 12.280701754385966%, Ginger Dip 12.280701754385966% (High Maltose Syrup, Water, Sugar, Soya Beans, Salt, Wheat Flour, Rice Vinegar, Ground Ginger, Sesame Oil, Thickener (Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose))

Additives: E466 Sodium carboxy methyl cellulose

As written on the pack

Vegetable Gyoza (86%) (Wheat Flour, Cabbage, Carrot, Cottonseed Oil, Peas, Onion, Water, Radish, Tapioca Starch, Shiitake Mushrooms, Sugar, Spring Onions, Cornflour, Garlic Purée, Sesame Oil, Salt, White Pepper), Soy And Ginger Dip (14%) (High Maltose Syrup (Contains Sulphites), Water, Sugar, Soya Beans, Salt, Wheat Flour, Rice Vinegar, Ground Ginger, Sesame Oil, Thickener: Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose).

What makes it ultra-processed

Cosmetic additives

Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • E466 Sodium carboxy methyl cellulose Carboxymethyl cellulose is a thickener made by chemically modifying cellulose from wood or cotton.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
4 ingredients that would only make it processed

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 603 vegetables

From least to most processed, this one ranks 556th. 18% of the vegetables here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 603 vegetables, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600529288, last edited 2 April 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
  • NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.