Is Aldi Stem Ginger Cookies ultra-processed?

Drop cookies Sold in the United Kingdom

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Invert sugar

21 ingredients
2 additives
Nutri-Score E

Less processed drop cookies

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

Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), stem ginger 21% (Ginger, Sugar (processing marker), Sugar Syrup), salted butter (processing marker) 20% (Butter, Salt (processing marker)), Sugar (processing marker), Oatmeal, Corn Flour, Partially Inverted Sugar Syrup (ultra-processing marker), Raising Agents (Ammonium Carbonates), Sodium Carbonates, Ground Ginger

Additives: E500 Sodium carbonates , E503 Ammonium carbonates

As written on the pack

Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), STEM GINGER (21%) (Ginger, Sugar, Sugar Syrup), SALTED BUTTER (20%) (Butter (Milk), Salt), Sugar, Oatmeal, Corn Flour, Partially Inverted Sugar Syrup, Raising Agents: Ammonium Carbonates, Sodium Carbonates; Ground Ginger.

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.

Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.

4 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.
Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 64 drop cookies

From least to most processed, this one ranks 9th. 94% of the drop cookies 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 64 drop cookies, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4061461865894, last edited 27 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 E (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.