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Is Aldi 6 all butter pains au chocolat ultra-processed?

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Pack of Aldi 6 all butter pains au chocolat

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:

  • 17 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Wheat Flour, butter, Water, dark chocolate 11% (Sugar, Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Butter, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin)), Sugar, Yeast, Wheat Gluten, Free Range Egg, Salt, Flour Treatment Agent (Ascorbic Acid), Enzyme

Additives: E300 Ascorbic acid , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin

As written on the pack

Wheat Flour, BUTTER (MILK) (21%), Water, DARK CHOCOLATE (11%) (Sugar, Cocoa Mass*, Cocoa Butter*, Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin), Sugar, Yeast, Wheat Gluten, Pasteurised Free Range Egg, Salt, Flour Treatment Agent: Ascorbic Acid; Enzyme

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.

  • E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.
  • Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.

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.

  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
3 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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600412184, last edited 22 March 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.