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Is Aldi Raspberry sorbet ultra-processed?

500ml Sorbets Sold in the United Kingdom and Germany

Pack of Aldi Raspberry sorbet

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:

  • 14 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Water, Raspberry Purée, Sugar, Lemon Juice from Concentrate, Glucose Syrup, Colour (Anthocyanins), Glucose-Fructose Syrup, Dextrose, Maltodextrin, Flavouring, Stabiliser (Pectins), Hydrolysed Pea Protein

Additives: E163 Anthocyanins , E440 Pectins

As written on the pack

Water, Raspberry Purée, Sugar, Lemon Juice from Concentrate, Glucose Syrup, Colour: Anthocyanins, Glucose-Fructose Syrup, Dextrose, Maltodextrin, Flavouring, Stabiliser: Pectins, Hydrolysed Pea Protein

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.

  • E163 Anthocyanins 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.
  • E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • 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.

  • 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.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
1 ingredient 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 12 sorbets

From least to most processed, this one ranks 9th. 92% of the sorbets 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 12 sorbets, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600379531, last edited 26 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.