ALL ALDI food grocery items now free of artificial food colours

At ALDI, our responsibility to customers is intrinsically linked to the health and nutrition of all our products, and we are constantly reviewing our range to improve its nutritional content.

To that end, we are pleased to say that ALDI is now completely free of artificial food colours – across both exclusive brand lines and branded food items.

We worked very closely with our suppliers to remove all artificial food colours used in Australian food manufacturing to provide consumers with peace of mind - particularly parents who are constantly on the lookout for natural alternatives.

The artificial food colours were either replaced with natural substitutes, or nothing at all and the reformulated products are of the same high quality and taste our customers have become accustomed to.

ALDI initiated the reformulation following a study by researchers at the University of Southampton which demonstrated increased levels of hyperactivity in young children consuming some artificial food colours.

The six artificial food colours highlighted in the University of Southampton study, which have been removed from ALDI’s exclusive branded food products, are:

102 Tartrazine
104 Quinoline Yellow
110 Sunset Yellow
122 Carmoisine
124 Ponceau
129 Allura Red

In addition, we removed the following eight artificial food colours used in Australian food manufacturing:

123 Amaranth Purple
127 Erythrosine Cherry Red
132 Indigo Blue
133 Brilliant Blue
142 Green
143 Green
151 Black
155 Brown

These are just a couple of the many initiatives we have underway to ensure the highest quality of our products.