Roasted cashew nuts, from least to most processed

We track 12 roasted cashew nuts, 8% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Roasted Whole Cashew Nuts.

What makes roasted cashew nuts ultra-processed

The signs of ultra-processing found most often, and the share of roasted cashew nuts that contain each:

Unprocessed or minimally processed (2)

  1. 1 Roasted Whole Cashew Nuts Tesco · 200g NOVA group 1
  2. 2 Torrostade cashewnotter Mgunya Rutasoka · 80 g NOVA group 1

Processed food (9)

  1. 3 Salted Roasted Cashews Tesco · 350g NOVA group 3
  2. 4 Roasted Cashews Tesco · 150g NOVA group 3
  3. 5 Roasted & salted cashews Lidl · 125 g NOVA group 3
  4. 6 Cashews Kirkland · 45g NOVA group 3
  5. 7 Whole Fancy Cashews Kirkland Signature · 40 oz (2.5 lb) 1.13 kg NOVA group 3
  6. 8 Dry Roasted Cashew Nuts Sea Salt Nutisal · 60g NOVA group 3
  7. 9 Cashew - Torrrostade och saltade. Famora Foods · 300 g NOVA group 3
  8. 10 Simply nature roasted cashews salted Simply Nature · 14 oz NOVA group 3
  9. 11 Roasted Cashews Sea Salt Simple Truth · 28 g NOVA group 3

Ultra-processed food (1)

  1. 12 Honey Roasted Cashews Tesco 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.