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Is Aldi Specially Selected Sea salt & chardonny vinegar ultra-processed?

150 g Salt and vinegar crisps Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Aldi Specially Selected Sea salt & chardonny vinegar

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:

  • 10 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed salt and vinegar crisps

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

potato, rapeseed oil, lactose, sea salt, acidity regulators (citric acid), sodium diacetate, dried chardonnay vinegar, spirit vinegar, yeast extract powder

Additives: E262 Sodium acetates , E262ii Sodium diacetate , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

potato, rapeseed oil, lactose (milk), sea salt, acidity regulators: citric acid, sodium diacetate, dried chardonnay vinegar, dried spirit vinegar, yeast extract powder

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.

  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
2 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.

  • Salty snacks Products in the category "Salty snacks" are at least group 3.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 28 salt and vinegar crisps

From least to most processed, this one ranks 11th. 93% of the salt and vinegar crisps 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 28 salt and vinegar crisps, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600198392, last edited 7 April 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.