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Is Aldi - Bon Appétit Chocolate Chip Brioche Swirls ultra-processed?

300g Brioche filled with chocolate drops Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Aldi - Bon Appétit Chocolate Chip Brioche Swirls

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:

  • 41 ingredients
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

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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

vanilla flavoured cream pâtissièrie 35% (Water, Sugar, Egg White, Modified Potato Starch, Whey Powder, Whole Milk Powder, Maltodextrin, Thickener (Xanthan Gum), Flavourings, Colour (Carotenes)), Wheat Flour, Chocolate Chips (Sugar, Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Butter, Flavouring, Emulsifier (Lecithins)), Sugar, Water, Liquid Egg, Vegetable Oils (Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil), Invert Sugar Syrup, Yeast, Wheat Gluten, Salt, Flavourings, Deactivated Yeast, Emulsifiers (mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids), mono- and Diacetyl Tartaric Acid Esters of mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids, Milk Protein, Preservative (Calcium Propionate), Colour (Carotenes)

Additives: E160a Carotene , E282 Calcium propionate , E322 Lecithins , E415 Xanthan gum , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids , E472e Mono- and diacetyltartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids

As written on the pack

VANILLA FLAVOURED CREAM PÂTISSIÈRIE (35%) (Water, Sugar, Egg White, Modified Potato Starch, Whey Powder (Milk), Whole Milk Powder, Maltodextrin, Thickener: Xanthan Gum; Flavourings, Colour: Carotenes), Wheat Flour, Chocolate Chips (Sugar, Cocoa Mass*, Cocoa Butter*, Flavouring, Emulsifier: Lecithins), Sugar, Water, Pasteurised Liquid Egg, Vegetable Oils (Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil), Invert Sugar Syrup, Yeast, Wheat Gluten, Salt, Flavourings, Deactivated Yeast, Emulsifiers: Mono-and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids, Mono-and Diacetyl Tartaric Acid Esters of Mono-and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids; Milk Protein, Preservative: Calcium Propionate; Colour: Carotenes.

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.

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  • Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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.
  • Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
  • Milk proteins Milk proteins are proteins separated from milk, such as caseinates and whey protein concentrates, added to adjust texture or raise protein content.
  • Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
7 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.

  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • 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.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.
  • 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 10 brioche filled with chocolate drops

From least to most processed, this one ranks 10th. 100% of the brioche filled with chocolate drops 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 10 brioche filled with chocolate drops, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600079295, last edited 16 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.