Is Aldi Dark chocolate and sea salt nut bar ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 16 ingredients
- 2 additives
- Nutri-Score D
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Almonds, Peanuts, Sugar (processing marker), Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Butter (processing marker), Butter (processing marker), Lecithins (ultra-processing marker), Flavouring (ultra-processing marker), Fructo-oligosaccharides (ultra-processing marker), Honey (processing marker), Pea Protein Isolate, Pea Protein, Sea Salt (processing marker), Tapioca Starch (processing marker), Antioxidant, Tocopherol Rich-Extract
Additives: E306 Tocopherol-rich extract , E322 Lecithins
As written on the pack
Almonds, Peanuts, Sugar, Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Butter, Butter, Lecithins, Flavouring, Fructo-oligosaccharides, Honey, Pea Protein Isolate, Pea Protein Concentrate, Sea Salt, Tapioca Starch, Antioxidant, Tocopherol Rich-Extract
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.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
- Sweetener Sweeteners give sweetness with few or no calories, many at hundreds of times the strength of sugar.
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.
- Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
- Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
- 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 fat Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.
- Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.
Among 1,328 bars
From least to most processed, this one ranks 549th. 89% of the bars here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4061463949592, last edited 26 June 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.