Peanut bars, from least to most processed

We track 42 peanut bars, 90% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Peanut Butter Cookie.

What makes peanut bars ultra-processed

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

Processed food (4)

  1. 1 Peanut Butter Cookie Lärabar · 1 Bar / 1.7oz (48g) NOVA group 3
  2. 2 Original Peanut Butter Stuffed Oat Bar Pip & Nut · 48g NOVA group 3
  3. 3 Peanut Butter Stuffed Chocolate Oat Bar Pip & Nut · 48g NOVA group 3
  4. 4 Original Peanut Butter Stuffed Oat Bars Pip & Nut · 3 x 48 g NOVA group 3

Ultra-processed food (38)

  1. 5 Peanut Delight Nākd · 4 x 35g NOVA group 4
  2. 6 Peanut Butter High Fibre Fruit & Nut Bar The Gut Stuff · 35g NOVA group 4
  3. 7 Peanut Butter High Fibre Fruit & Nut Bars The Gut Stuff · 3 x 35g NOVA group 4
  4. 8 Roasted Peanut Crunch Bars Deliciously Ella · 3 bars NOVA group 4
  5. 9 Peanut Butter Granola Bars Nature Valley Crunchy · 1.5 OZ (42 g) NOVA group 4
  6. 10 Sea Salt & Caramel High Fibre Fruit & Nut Bar The Gut Stuff · 12 x 35g NOVA group 4
  7. 11 Eat Natural maple syrup, peacon and peanuts bar Eat Natural · 135 g '3 *45 g e) NOVA group 4
  8. 12 Caramel Protein Flapjack Tribe NOVA group 4
  9. 13 Peanut & Raspberry Breakfast Bars Marks & Spencer · 4 x 38g = 152g NOVA group 4
  10. 14 ClifBar Crunchy Peanut Butter Clif · 2.40 oz NOVA group 4
  11. 15 Fruit & nut bars Eat Natural · 40 gram NOVA group 4
  12. 16 Deluxe Fruit & Nut protein bars Lidl · 3 x 45 g NOVA group 4
  13. 17 Fruit & nut bars protein packed Eat Natural · 3 x 45 g NOVA group 4
  14. 18 Choc Raspberry Nut Butter Triple Decker Tribe · 40 g NOVA group 4
  15. 19 Nut Bars (all flavours) Specially Selected · 160 g (4 x 40 g) NOVA group 4
  16. 20 Crunchy Nut Bars with Peanuts & Chocolate Eat Natural · 3 x 45g NOVA group 4
  17. 21 Cocoa & Orange Protein Perkier · 35g NOVA group 4
  18. 22 Protein Peanut Bars Perkier · 3 x 35g NOVA group 4
  19. 23 Nut Butter Triple Decker Tribe · 3 x 40g NOVA group 4
  20. 24 Caramel Chocolate Peanut Kind · 3 x 30 g NOVA group 4
  21. 25 Seeds Fruit & Nuts Kind · 4 oz NOVA group 4
  22. 26 Peanut Dark Chocolate Bar Perkier · 37g NOVA group 4
  23. 27 Chewy Chocolate & Peanut Butter Protein Bars Trader Joe's · 7.05 oz (200 g) NOVA group 4
  24. 28 sweet and salty granola bars peanut Nature Valley NOVA group 4
  25. 29 Salted Caramel Dark Chocolate Perkier · 3 x 37g = 111g NOVA group 4
  26. 30 Salted Peanut Butter Flavored Bar David · 2.19 oz NOVA group 4
  27. 31 Protein Salted Caramel Nut Nature Valley · 160g NOVA group 4
  28. 32 Rosted Nut Bars Real Milk Chocolate Nice & Natural · 192 g NOVA group 4
  29. 33 Protein Peanut and Chocolate Nature Valley · 40 g NOVA group 4
  30. 34 roasted nut bars trail mix Nice & Natural · 192 g NOVA group 4
  31. 35 Protein Peanut & Chocolate Nature Valley · 40g NOVA group 4
  32. 36 Japp All Nuts Japp · 60 g NOVA group 4
  33. 37 Nature Valley Sweet & Salty Nut 4pk Nature Valley · 4 x 30 g NOVA group 4
  34. 38 Peanut butter bars Graze · 4 x 30g NOVA group 4
  35. 39 Peanut butter oat boost Graze · 50g NOVA group 4
  36. 40 Chocolate Nut Bars Apricot Nice & Natural · 180 g NOVA group 4
  37. 41 Nutrageous Reese's · 47 g NOVA group 4
  38. 42 Fit Crunch Chocolate Peanut Butter Chef Robert Irvine's · 1.62 oz (46 g) 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.