Christmas Tree Biscuits

Name: Christmas Tree Biscuits
Brand: Aldi

Aldi

4061463794819

Processing

Ultra-processed

Group 4 of 4 on the NOVA scale

Additives listed

0 we grade moderate or higher

4 of them not yet assessed here

Sugars per 100g

39.60g

High

UK FSA front of pack threshold

Three separate readings, kept apart on purpose. This is not a score, and none of it says this product is harmful.

Additives (5)

This label lists 2 raising agents, 1 acidity regulator, 1 emulsifier and 1 glazing agent.

E322 Lecithin
Emulsifier No real concern strong evidence

What it is. A natural emulsifier, usually from soya or sunflower.

Why it is used. Keeps chocolate smooth and stops ingredients separating.

What the evidence says. Safe and widely used. Only relevant if the source, such as soya, is an allergen for you.

Regulatory status UK Permitted EU Permitted US Permitted

Permitted freely. Source allergen must be declared.

Assessed against EFSA, JECFA. Full entry for E322

Also on the label, not assessed here yet

E336 Potassium tartrates acidity regulator
E500 Sodium carbonates raising agent
E503 Ammonium carbonates raising agent
E901 Beeswax glazing agent

Names and jobs come from the register of additives permitted in Great Britain, which we have not finished transcribing: a code shown without a name is a gap in our coverage, not a finding that it is unapproved. Naming one is not grading it either. Full detail appears only where we have an assessment against a named authority, so all of this describes our coverage rather than these additives. Most are common and low concern.

Ingredients

Wheat Flour, MILK CHOCOLATE (23%) (Sugar, Cocoa Mass*, Whole Milk Powder, Cocoa Butter*, Palm Fat, Whey Powder (Milk), Emulsifier: Lecithins; Sal Fat, Shea Fat, Mango Fat), Sugar, Palm Fat, Whole Milk Powder, Skimmed Milk Powder, Rapeseed Oil, Wheat Starch, Glucose Syrup, Raising Agents: Sodium Carbonates, Potassium Tartrates, Ammonium Carbonates; Invert Sugar Syrup, Egg Powder, Emulsifier: Lecithins; Salt, Fruit and Plant Extracts (Blackcurrant Concentrate, Radish Concentrate, Lemon Concentrate, Safflower Concentrate, Spirulina Concentrate), Flavouring, Coconut Oil, Glazing Agent: Beeswax, White and Yellow.

As printed on the pack, in the producer's own order: ingredients are listed by weight, so what comes first is most of what is in it. E numbers link to their assessment where we have one.

Processing level

NOVA group 4: Ultra-processed

Industrial formulations with additives, isolates and ingredients you would not cook with at home. The strongest modern evidence links high intake of these to poorer health outcomes.

Nutrients per 100g

Fat

24.80g

High

Saturates

15.20g

High

Sugars

39.60g

High

Salt

0.18g

Low

These figures are estimated from the ingredients rather than read off the packaging, so treat the bands as approximate. The pack is the authority.

Judged on the UK FSA front of pack thresholds for solid foods. A dash means the source has no figure, which is not the same as a low one.

Where this came from

Product data from Open Food Facts, which is crowd sourced and can be incomplete or out of date. Photograph from the same source, under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike licence. Our copy is from 17 August 2026: Open Food Facts is checked every night, and a product is rewritten only when its record there has changed, so an older date means the source has not moved rather than that we stopped looking. Something wrong? Correcting it at the source fixes it here and everywhere else that uses the same data. If the problem is one of our additive assessments, tell us.

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