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Is Aldi Mature Cheddar and Red Onion Hand Cooked Crisps ultra-processed?

150g Cheese and onion crisps Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Aldi Mature Cheddar and Red Onion Hand Cooked Crisps

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:

  • 30 ingredients
  • 8 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed flavoured potato crisps

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

Potato, Rapeseed Oil, Lactose, Cheese Powder (Cheese Powder, Emulsifying Salt (Sodium Phosphates)), Onion, Sea Salt, Skimmed Milk Powder, Yeast Extract Powder, Buttermilk Powder, Salt, Turmeric Extract, Sugar, Acidity Regulators (Calcium Lactate), Lactic Acid, Anticaking Agents (Silicon Dioxide), Tricalcium Phosphate, Mature Cheddar Cheese (Mature Cheddar Cheese, Emulsifying Salts (Sodium Citrates), Diphosphates), Flavourings, Parsley, Red Onion, White Pepper

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E270 Lactic acid , E327 Calcium lactate , E331 Sodium citrates , E341 Calcium phosphates , E341iii Tricalcium phosphate , E450 Diphosphates , E551 Silicon dioxide

As written on the pack

Potato, Rapeseed Oil, Dried Lactose (Milk), Cheese Powder (Cheese Powder (Milk), Emulsifying Salt: Sodium Phosphates), Onion Powder, Sea Salt, Skimmed Milk Powder, Yeast Extract Powder, Buttermilk Powder, Salt, Turmeric Extract, Sugar, Acidity Regulators: Calcium Lactate, Lactic Acid; Anticaking Agents: Silicon Dioxide, Tricalcium Phosphate; Dried Mature Cheddar Cheese (Mature Cheddar Cheese (Milk), Emulsifying Salts: Sodium Citrates, Diphosphates), Flavourings, Dried Parsley, Red Onion Powder, Ground White Pepper.

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.

  • E100 Curcumin 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.
  • E327 Calcium lactate Thickeners are substances which increase the viscosity of a foodstuff.
  • E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
  • E551 Silicon dioxide A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

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.

  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
6 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.

  • Salty snacks Products in the category "Salty snacks" are at least group 3.
  • Anti-caking agent Anti-caking agents are substances which reduce the tendency of individual particles of a foodstuff to adhere to one another.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
  • 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 19 cheese and onion crisps

From least to most processed, this one ranks 17th. 95% of the cheese and onion crisps 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 19 cheese and onion crisps, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600206417, last edited 22 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.