Apple cereal bars, from least to most processed

We track 13 apple cereal bars, 69% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Apple & raisin oat bars.

What makes apple cereal bars ultra-processed

The signs of ultra-processing found most often, and the share of apple cereal bars that contain each:

Processed food (4)

  1. 1 Apple & raisin oat bars Deliciously ella · 150g NOVA group 3
  2. 2 Apple & Raisin Oat Bar Deliciously Ella · 50g NOVA group 3
  3. 3 Apple & Cinnamon Peanut Butter Stuffed Oat Bars Pip & Nut · 3 x 48g NOVA group 3
  4. 4 Apple & Cinnamon Peanut Butter Stuffed Oat Bar Pip & Nut · 48 g NOVA group 3

Ultra-processed food (9)

  1. 5 Apple & Orange Soft Oaty Bars Organix · 6 x 23g NOVA group 4
  2. 6 Toffee Apple Oat Bar Bio & Me · 38g NOVA group 4
  3. 7 Frusli apple & cinnamon Frusli · 180 g NOVA group 4
  4. 8 Soft Baked Bars Apple Streusel Mott's · 6x 0.96 (27 g) oz bars - Net weight 5.76 oz (163 g) NOVA group 4
  5. 9 Fruit Bakes Apple Crownfield · 264g NOVA group 4
  6. 10 this apple walks into a bar... Cereal Bars Trader Joe's · 7.8 oz (222 g) NOVA group 4
  7. 11 Fruit Slices - Apple Go Ahead · 174g (4x3x14.5g) NOVA group 4
  8. 12 Soft Baked Breakfast Bars Apple Cinnamon Kellogg's Nutri Grain · 10.4 oz (296 g) NOVA group 4
  9. 13 Fruit & Oat Bakes Apple Go Ahead · 6 x 35g NOVA group 4

Within each group, products with fewer signs of ultra-processing, additives and ingredients come first. This ordering is ours, for comparison; it is not part of NOVA.