LIDL · INGREDIENT FREQUENCY
What's in Lidl's products?
We scored 2,168 Lidl products from our UK supermarket index (1,792 have a verified NOVA processing score). Here's what shows up most often in their ingredient lists, and how scores are distributed across the shelf.
Score distribution — 1,792 scored Lidl products
80+
603
33.6%
60-79
160
8.9%
40-59
224
12.5%
<40
805
44.9%
Most common additives in Lidl's shelf
% = of Lidl products that contain at least one mention of this additive in their ingredient list.
- Citric acid (E330) 245 14.1%
- Lecithin (E322) 157 9.1%
- Mono- and diglycerides (E471) 100 5.8%
- Sodium carbonate / bicarb (E500) 92 5.3%
- Diphosphates (E450) 88 5.1%
- E250 87 5%
- Paprika extract (E160c) 78 4.5%
- Potassium sorbate (E202) 70 4%
- Ascorbic acid / Vitamin C (E300) 68 3.9%
- Xanthan gum (E415) 60 3.5%
- E301 58 3.3%
- E451 55 3.2%
- Guar gum (E412) 53 3.1%
- E422 45 2.6%
- E331 43 2.5%
- E440 41 2.4%
- E270 41 2.4%
- E503 38 2.2%
- E252 34 2%
- E100 33 1.9%
Most common ingredients on Lidl's shelf
The categorical-tag class includes broad descriptors (water, salt, sugar) alongside ingredients proper. Read these as "what tag-class shows up across the Lidl shelf".
Salt 42.9%
Sugar 32%
Water 27%
Dairy 24.3%
Flour 23.7%
Wheat 19.6%
Glucose 16.9%
Wheat Flour 16.9%
Starch 16.7%
Vegetable Oil 15.6%
Rapeseed Oil 15.4%
Plant 12.9%
Natural Flavouring 12.9%
Seed 11.8%
Yeast 11.6%
Garlic 10.4%
Sunflower Oil 10.1%
Onion 10%
Palm Oil And Fat 10%
Dextrose 9.4%
Corn Starch 8.8%
Cocoa 8.5%
Palm Oil 8.5%
Thiamin 8.1%
Animal 8.1%