Is Aldi Balti cooking sauce ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 43 ingredients
- 1 additive
- Nutri-Score C
Less processed sauces
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
water tomato 18%, tomat firm adity regulator (citric aci rapeseed of1), sugar (processing marker), spice sets, onion, garlider, cumin, sugar (processing marker), ginger powder, cardamom, ground tuemeric, anti-caking agents (processing marker) (tricalcum ing agent), calcium chloride mon (1696), tomato paste 7%, easoning 3% (rice flour, coriander coper, glour, turmeric extract (ultra-processing marker) (flavouring (ultra-processing marker))), green pepper (2‚56), eu pepper 2.5%, modified maize starch (ultra-processing marker), garlic purée, ginger ruce calam masala powder, coriander, cumin, cinnamon, gingel, ghir omenc, coriander leaf, paprika powder, acidity regulalo ocid, chilli (0 2%), black pepper, fenugreek, e o pened, refrigerate and use within 3 days
Additives: E100 Curcumin
As written on the pack
water tomato (18%) (tomat firm adity regulator: citric aci rapeseed of1, sugar, spice sets,onion powder, garlider, cumin, sugar, ginger powder, ground cardamom, ground tuemeric, anti-caking agents: tricalcum ing agent: calcium chloride mon (1696), tomato paste (7%), easoning (3%) (rice flour, coriander coper, glour, turmeric extract: flavouring), green pepper (2,56), eu pepper (2,5%), modified maize starch, garlic purée, ginger ruce calam masala powder (coriander, cumin, cinnamon, gingel, ghir omenc, coriander leaf, paprika powder, acidity regulalo ocid, chilli powder (0 2%), ground black pepper, fenugreek, vegetarians, e o pened, refrigerate and use within 3 days,
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.
- E100 Curcumin Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
- Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.
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.
- Anti-caking agent Anti-caking agents are substances which reduce the tendency of individual particles of a foodstuff to adhere to one another.
- Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
Among 2,964 sauces
From least to most processed, this one ranks 2215th. 60% of the sauces here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600054315, last edited 28 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 C (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.