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Is Aldi Blueberry Soya Pot ultra-processed?

500g Fruit soy yogurts Sold in the United Kingdom and Germany

Pack of Aldi Blueberry Soya Pot

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
  • 6 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, blueberry 5%, maize starch, potato starch, acidity regulators (citric acid, sodium citrates), calcium phosphates, thickeners (locust bean gum, pectins), blueberry juice from concentrate, sea salt, flavouring, calcium carbonate, colour (carotenes), vitamin b12, yogurt cultures (s, thermophilus, l, bulgaricus), riboflavin

Additives: E160a Carotene , E330 Citric acid , E331 Sodium citrates , E341 Calcium phosphates , E410 Locust bean gum , E440 Pectins

As written on the pack

water, soya bean 12%, sugar, blueberry 5%, maize starch, potato starch, acidity regulators (citric acid, sodium citrates), calcium phosphates, thickeners (locust bean gum, pectins), blueberry juice from concentrate, sea salt, flavouring, calcium carbonate, 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.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • 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 15 fruit soy yogurts

From least to most processed, this one ranks 13th. 100% of the fruit soy 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 15 fruit soy yogurts, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600316482, last edited 26 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.