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Is Aldi Sour cream and chive dip ultra-processed?

200 g Dips Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Aldi Sour cream and chive dip

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:

  • 21 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score D

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

soured cream 56%, mayonnaise 28% (Water, Rapeseed Oil, Spirit Vinegar, Whole Egg Powder, Maize Starch, Sugar, Salt, Citrus Fibre, Rice Starch, Egg White Powder, Sucrose, Potato Fibre), Onions, chives 3.5%, Cornflour, Rapeseed Oil, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Salt, Potassium Sorbate

Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate

As written on the pack

SOURED CREAM (56%) (Milk), MAYONNAISE (28%) [Water, Rapeseed Oil, Spirit Vinegar, Whole Egg Powder, Maize Starch, Sugar, Salt, Citrus Fibre, Rice Starch, Egg White Powder, Sucrose, Potato Fibre], Onions, CHIVES (3.5%), Cornflour, Rapeseed Oil, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Salt, Preservative: Potassium Sorbate.

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.

  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
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.

  • E202 Potassium sorbate 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.
  • 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.
  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 433 dips

From least to most processed, this one ranks 291st. 43% of the dips 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 433 dips, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600005201, last edited 13 August 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.