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Is Aldi Protein Pot ultra-processed?

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Pack of Aldi Protein Pot

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:

  • 24 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score A

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

low fat soft cheese, low fat yogurt, water, caramel paste 2%, glucose-fructose syrup, sweetened condensed milk (milk, sugar), salted butter (butter, salt), sugar, water, salt, maize starch, apple, carrot concentrate, flavouring, salt, acidity regulators (citric acid), sodium citrates, sweeteners (acesulfame k sucralose)

Additives: E330 Citric acid , E331 Sodium citrates , E955 Sucralose

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E955 Sucralose.

As written on the pack

low fat soft cheese (milk), low fat yogurt (milk), water, caramel paste (2%) glucose-fructose syrup, sweetened condensed milk (milk, sugar), salted butter (butter (milk), salt), sugar, water, salt), maize starch, apple concentrate, carrot concentrate, flavouring, salt, acidity regulators: citric acid, sodium citrates, sweeteners: acesulfame k sucralose,

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.

  • E955 Sucralose Sucralose is a sweetener made by chlorinating sugar.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Sweetener Sweeteners give sweetness with few or no calories, many at hundreds of times the strength of sugar.

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.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
5 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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,210 yogurts

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1027th. 71% of the yogurts 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 1,210 yogurts, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600470467, last edited 27 February 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.