Is Aldi Homestyle Chips - Straight Cut ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 15 ingredients
- 5 additives
- Nutri-Score B
Less processed frozen fried potatoes
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
potatoes 91%, sunflower oil (processing marker) 5%, modified potato starch (ultra-processing marker), rice flour, dextrin (ultra-processing marker), salt (processing marker), raising agents (diphosphates (ultra-processing marker), sodium carbonates), dextrose (ultra-processing marker), maltodextrin (ultra-processing marker), paprika extract (ultra-processing marker), curcuma powder, thickener (ultra-processing marker) (xanthan gum (ultra-processing marker))
Additives: E1400 Dextrin , E160c Paprika extract , E415 Xanthan gum , E450 Diphosphates , E500 Sodium carbonates
As written on the pack
potatoes 91%, sunflower oil 5%, modified potato starch, rice flour, dextrin, salt, raising agents (diphosphates, sodium carbonates), dextrose, maltodextrin, paprika extract, curcuma powder, thickener (xanthan gum),
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.
- E1400 Dextrin Dextrin is starch partly broken down by heat or acid, used as a thickener, binder and coating.
- E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
- E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
- E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
- 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.
- Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
- Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
- Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down 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.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
- Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
Among 104 frozen fried potatoes
From least to most processed, this one ranks 102nd. 80% of the frozen fried potatoes here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600101125, last edited 27 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.