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Is Aldi Specially selected lemon curd farmhouse yogurt ultra-processed?

Whole milk yogurts Sold in the United Kingdom

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:

  • 16 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed whole milk yogurts

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

yogurt, Lemon Curd, Sugar, Water, Glucose Syrup, Lemon Juice from Concentrate Salted Butter (Butter, Salt), Cornflour, Egg, Flavoung Colour, Lutein, Sugar, Gelling Agent (Pectins), see

Additives: E161b Lutein , E440 Pectins

As written on the pack

YOGURT (MILK) (80%), Lemon Curd (Sugar, Water, Glucose Syrup, Lemon Juice from Concentrate Salted Butter (Butter (Milk), Salt) Cornflour, Dried Egg Powder, Flavoung Colour. Lutein), Sugar, Gelling Agent: Pectins. ALLERGY ADVICE: For allergens, see

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.

  • E161b Lutein 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.
  • Gelling agent Gelling agents such as pectin, gelatine or carrageenan set liquids into gels and stabilise textures.

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.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
3 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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 20 whole milk yogurts

From least to most processed, this one ranks 20th. 30% of the whole milk 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 20 whole milk yogurts, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600027562, 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.
  • 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.