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Is Aldi PEEL HERE SPECIALLY SELECTED 100% BRITISH PORK App ultra-processed?

120 g Hams Sold in the United Kingdom

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 12 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed meats and their products

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

pork, Salt, Muscovado Sugar, Brown Sugar, Antioxidant (Sodium Ascorbate), Preservative (Sodium Nitrite, use by), See front of pack, storage (Keep refrigerated below 5°C)

Additives: E250 Sodium nitrite , E301 Sodium ascorbate

As written on the pack

PORK, Salt, Muscovado Sugar, Brown Sugar, Antioxidant: Sodium Ascorbate; Preservative: Sodium Nitrite. MADE WITH 105g OF RAW PORK PER 100g OF FINISHED PRODUCT Packaged in a protective atmosphere. USE BY: See front of pack. STORAGE: Keep refrigerated below 5°C.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.

Preservation and traditional processing

Keep food safe or ferment it, like preservatives and cultures. A sign of processing, not ultra-processing.

  • E250 Sodium nitrite Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Prepared meats Products in the category "Prepared meats" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 223 hams

From least to most processed, this one ranks 60th. 65% of the hams 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 223 hams, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4061462014123, last edited 4 June 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.