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Is Aldi holly lane christmas pudding ultra-processed?

Puddings Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Aldi holly lane christmas pudding

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:

  • 45 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

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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

sultanas 36%, sugar, wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), cider 8%, vegetable suet (vegetable oil (palm oil, sunflower oil), rice flour), rum 4%, humectant (glycerol), orange peel, raisins 2%, orange, lemon peel (orange peel, glucose syrup, lemon peel, sugar, acid (citric acid)), glacé cherries (cherries), glucose-fructose syrup, colour (anthocyanins), acid (citric acid), cream, orange juice from concentrate, brandy 1.5%, sherry 1%, treacle, lemon peel, molasses, spices, salt, yeast, o

Additives: E163 Anthocyanins , E330 Citric acid , E422 Glycerol

As written on the pack

sultanas (36%), sugar, wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), cider (8%), vegetable suet (vegetable oil (palm oil, sunflower oil), rice flour), rum (4%), humectant: glycerol, orange peel, raisins (2%), candied orange and lemon peel (orange peel, glucose syrup, lemon peel, sugar, acid: citric acid), glacé cherries: (1,5%) (cherries, glucose-fructose syrup, colour: anthocyanins, acid: citric acid), cream (milk), orange juice from concentrate, brandy (1,5%), sherry (1%), treacle, lemon peel, molasses, spices, salt, yeast, o

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.

  • E163 Anthocyanins 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.
  • E422 Glycerol Glycerol is a sweet-tasting liquid used to keep products moist and soft.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Humectant Humectants are substances which prevent foods from drying out by counteracting the effect of an atmosphere having a low degree of humidity, or promote the dissolution of a powder in an aqueous medium.

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.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
4 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.
  • 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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 95 puddings

From least to most processed, this one ranks 78th. 92% of the puddings 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 95 puddings, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600137667, last edited 20 May 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.