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Is Aldi Acti leaf Vanilla yogourt ultra-processed?

Soy milk yogurts Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Aldi Acti leaf Vanilla yogourt

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:

  • 25 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Less processed soy milk yogurts

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

water, soya bean 12%, sugar, maize starch, potato starch, acidity regulator (citric acid), sodium citrates, thickeners (locust bean gum), pectins, calcium phosphates, flavouring plant extract (carrot concentrate, sea salt), calcium carbonate, exhausted vanilla pods, colour (carotenes), vitamin b12, yogurt cultures (s, thermophilus, lactobacillus bulgaricus), riboflavin

Additives: E160a Carotene , E330 Citric acid , E331 Sodium citrates , E410 Locust bean gum , E440 Pectins

As written on the pack

water, soya bean (12%), sugar, maize starch, potato starch, acidity regulator : citric acid, sodium citrates, thickeners: locust bean gum, pectins, calcium phosphates, flavouring plant extract (carrot concentrate): sea salt, calcium carbonate, exhausted vanilla pods, colour: carotenes, vitamin b12, yogurt cultures (s, thermophilus, l. bulgaricus), riboflavin.

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.

  • E160a Carotene Carotenes are orange-yellow pigments, either synthesised or extracted from carrots, algae or palm oil.
  • E410 Locust bean gum Locust bean gum (carob gum) is a thickener and stabiliser from the seeds of the carob tree.
  • E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
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.

  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 34 soy milk yogurts

From least to most processed, this one ranks 28th. 82% of the soy milk yogurts 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 34 soy milk yogurts, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600316505, last edited 27 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.