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Is Aldi Moreno espresso ultra-processed?

200g Candy chocolate bars Sold in Australia and France

Pack of Aldi Moreno espresso

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:

  • 15 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Less processed candy chocolate bars

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

Sugar, Hazelnuts, Full Cream Milk Powder Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Mass, Buttermilk (From Milk), Lactose (From Milk), From Soy, Vanilla Extract, Milk Chocolate 73%, Contains 30% Cocoa Solids Minimum and 20% Milk Solids Minimum, cereals, peanuts, other tree nuts

As written on the pack

Sugar, Hazelnuts, Full Cream Milk Powder Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Mass, Buttermilk Powder (From Milk), Lactose (From Milk), Emulsifier (322 From Soy), Vanilla Extract. Milk Chocolate (73%) Contains 30% Cocoa Solids Minimum and 20% Milk Solids Minimum. CONTAINS HAZELNUTS, MILK AND SOY! MAY BE PRESENT GLUTEN CEREALS, PEANUTS AND OTHER TREE NUTS.

What makes it ultra-processed

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.
2 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.

  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 201 candy chocolate bars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 13th. 94% of the candy chocolate bars 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 201 candy chocolate bars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 26033327, last edited 17 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 A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.