Product Reformulation
At Aldi, we are dedicated to supporting our customers to live healthier lifestyles and improving the nutritional value of our products is integral to our strategy. We have product reformulation programmes focused on encouraging our customers to eat the foods they love while consuming less sugar, salt and saturated fat. All of our product reformulation policies are embedded within the buying process to ensure we deliver against our health strategy.
Salt Reduction
The UK population is currrently consuming more salt than the recommended 6g per day.
Too much salt in the diet can lead to daily lifestyle health conditions like heart disease and high blood pressure. For this reason, we have been gradually reducing the level of salt in our products for a number of years, in line with Public Health England’s Salt Reduction Programme, to benefit the health of our customers, whilst ensuring our products are of the highest quality and still taste great.
83% of our products are already compliant with the Public Health England 2024 targets.
We have now updated our salt reduction policy to align with the new Public Health England 2024 targets and are working towards these new targets for all our applicable own-brand products.
Sugar Reduction
Eating too much sugar can increase your risk of tooth decay, weight gain, heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and even some cancers.
It’s a problem we’re passionate about tackling and that’s why we’ve made lowering sugar consumption a key focus for Aldi. To play our part in tackling the UK childhood obesity crisis, Aldi are committed to reducing sugar in key areas that lead to children’s sugar intake. We have aligned our sugar policy to Public Health England’s Sugar Reduction Programme, aiming at reducing sugar across key product categories.
We have achieved an average of 15.2% sugar reduction across key categories*
*Key categories defined by Public Health England.
Calorie Reduction
In January 2021 we introduced our new calorie policy, in line with Public Health England's Calorie Reduction Programme.
92% of our products meet the maxiumum calorie targets*
*As outlined by Public Health England
In addition, all our soft drinks have less than 5g sugar/100m*l.
*Excluding fruit juices.
It is our mission to continue to improve the nutritional value of our products and be prepared for further Government guidelines on areas such as baby food.
We are also looking to increase the number of plant-based products available in our stores to help support special and sustainable diets. To support this, we more than doubled our range of dairy alternatives since 2020 and we have increased our entire plant-based range by 39% since then too.