Is Lidl Sweet pickle ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 32 ingredients
- 2 additives
- Nutri-Score D
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Vegetables 54% (Carrots, Swede, Onion, Cauliflower), Sugar (processing marker), Barley Malt Vinegar, Tomato Purée, Water, Spirit Vinegar, Modified Maize Starch (ultra-processing marker), Apple Pulp (Apple, Preservative (processing marker) (Acetic Acid)), Date Paste (Dates, Rice Flour), Dried Onion, Acid (Acetic Acid), Colour (ultra-processing marker) (Ammonia Caramel), Salt (processing marker), Concentrated Lemon Juice, Mixed Spices (Ginger, Cardamom, Nutmeg, Clove), Flavouring (ultra-processing marker), Garlic Extract
Additives: E150c Ammonia caramel , E260 Acetic acid
As written on the pack
Vegetables (54%) (Carrots, Swede, Onion, Cauliflower), Sugar, Barley Malt Vinegar, Tomato Purée, Water, Spirit Vinegar, Modified Maize Starch, Apple Pulp (Apple, Preservative: Acetic Acid), Date Paste (Dates, Rice Flour), Dried Onion, Acid: Acetic Acid, Colour: Ammonia Caramel; Salt, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Ground Mixed Spices (Ginger, Cardamom, Nutmeg, Clove), Flavouring, Garlic Extract.
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.
- E150c Ammonia caramel Ammonia caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars with ammonia compounds.
- 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.
- Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.
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.
- Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
- 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.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20003364, 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 D (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.