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Is Aldi 2 Extra Large Beer Battered Haddock Fillets ultra-processed?

460g Frozen fishes Sold in the United Kingdom and Germany

Pack of Aldi 2 Extra Large Beer Battered Haddock Fillets

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:

  • 26 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Less processed frozen fishes

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

haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Water, Rapeseed Oil, ALE 2%, Yeast Extract, Salt, Sugar, Wheat Starch, Flavouring, Raising Agents (Ammonium Carbonates Diphosphates), Sodium Carbonates, Skimmed Milk Powder, Maize Flour, Citric Acid, Sunflower Oil, Dextrose, Black Pepper Extract, Wheat Gluten

Additives: E330 Citric acid , E450 Diphosphates , E500 Sodium carbonates

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E450 Diphosphates.

As written on the pack

HADDOCK (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) (Fish) (60%), Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Water, Rapeseed Oil, ALE (2%) (contains Barley), Yeast Extract, Salt, Sugar, Wheat Starch, Flavouring, Raising Agents: Ammonium Carbonates Diphosphates, Sodium Carbonates; Skimmed Milk Powder, Maize Flour, Citric Acid, Sunflower Oil, Dextrose, Black Pepper Extract, Wheat Gluten. ALLERGY ADVICE:

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.

  • E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

Substances rarely used in home kitchens

Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
5 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.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 49 frozen fishes

From least to most processed, this one ranks 43rd. 78% of the frozen fishes 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 49 frozen fishes, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600220529, last edited 9 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 A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.