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Variety packs, from least to most processed

We track 53 variety packs, 62% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Organic Mangoes.

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What makes variety packs ultra-processed

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

Unprocessed or minimally processed (6)

  1. 1 Organic Mangoes Sunny Fruit · 0,7 oz 1
  2. 2 Sweet potato sticks Simply nature · 1.66 oz 1
  3. 3 Pure Almond Extract 1 fl oz (29 mL) 1
  4. 4 Frozen wild blueberry mango blend Wegmans · 48 oz 1
  5. 5 Organic Coconut Water the Original C20 · 33.8 fl oz 1
  6. 6 No Calcium OJ Tropicana · 1.36 L 1

Processed food (14)

  1. 7 Creamy Dark Roasted Peanut Butter Santa Cruz Organic · 16 oz 3
  2. 8 Raisins Mini Snacks The Foodie Market 3
  3. 9 All Butter Cinnamon Knots Waitrose & Partners 3
  4. 10 Edamame Biena · 510 g 3
  5. 11 Original madras lentils Tasty Bite · 5 lb 3
  6. 12 Bake Shop Frosted Cookies Birthday Cake Quest · 1.7 g 3
  7. 13 Seed and raisin trail mix Aldi · 10 oz 3
  8. 14 Variety Pack 4 Fruit Bars Zombie · 4x25g bars 3
  9. 15 Chocolate chip cookie dough Perfect Bar Original Protein Bar · 62 g (2.18 OZ) 3
  10. 16 GOSH! Aloo Tikki Bites Gosh · 171 g 3
  11. 17 BILVAM Chunchy Paatra Bilvam · 250gm 3
  12. 18 Jalapeño Beef Sticks Chomps · 9.2 oz 3
  13. 19 Herb & Spice Seasoned Salt Grinder Cape Herb and Spice (PTY) LTD 3
  14. 20 Zeina's Hummus Mix: Original / Chili / Soltorkad tomat Zeina's · 3 x 70 g 3

Ultra-processed food (33)

  1. 21 Lemonade Simply · 76 oz 4
  2. 22 Instant Oatmeal Flavor Variety Quaker · 12.1 oz, 8z 1.51 oz packets 4
  3. 23 Vitacup focus coffee 10 oz 4
  4. 24 Chocolate Chip Kind · 16.2 oz 4
  5. 25 Natural American Cheese sliced natural cheese Sargento · 8 oz 4
  6. 26 French Vanilla Almond Cascadian Farm · 11 oz 4
  7. 27 Instant Oatmeal Fruit & Cream Quaker · 8.4 oz, 8z 1.05 oz packets 4
  8. 28 Posh dog Marks & Spencer · 295 g 4
  9. 29 Pizza crisps tomato basil Sonoma creamery · 2 oz 4
  10. 30 Kinder’s Dipping Sauce, The Chicken Sauce Kinder’s · 22 oz 4
  11. 31 Stoneground Wheat Crackers Back To Nature · 5.0 g 4
  12. 32 12 Vegetable Snack Selection Tesco 4
  13. 33 Instant Oatmeal Lower Sugar Variety Quaker · 9.3 oz 4
  14. 34 Cocoa For Coconuts Flavor Protein Bar Trubar · 50 g 4
  15. 35 Coconut Clusters Simply Nature · 284 g 4
  16. 36 Protein nut granola Nutrail · 22 oz 4
  17. 37 Fruit Strips Variety Pack Bettergoods · 20 oz 4
  18. 38 Sweet piccalilli Tesco · 350g 4
  19. 39 Mini Cheddars Original Jacob's · 322g 4
  20. 40 Chocolate Coffee Flavored Granola Trader Joe's · 58 g 4
  21. 41 Taco Seasoning Tesco 4
  22. 42 High Protein Granola Chocolate & Peanut Lizi's · 350 g 4
  23. 43 Little Jude's milk lollies 4
  24. 44 Strawberry Stuff'd Oat Bites Bobo's 4
  25. 45 Mango Peach Welches Fruit Snacks · 22.7 g 4
  26. 46 Gold Billons Wafer Mcvities · 39 g 4
  27. 47 cracker sandwich Ritz · 39 g 4
  28. 48 Zeroh Mango & Lemon Conaxess Trade · 0,8L 4
  29. 49 Expertly Baked By Since 3052 M Foxs R Calories Per Fox’s · 7 x 19 g 4
  30. 50 Reduced Sugar Sweet Chilli Sauce Blue Dragon 4
  31. 51 Fibre 1 Bar Oats & Chocolate Fibre 1 · 35 g 4
  32. 52 Gushers Variety Pack General Mills · 4.8 oz, 6x 0.8 oz pouches 4
  33. 53 Döskalle 329 g 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.