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Is 365 Peanut Butter Balls ultra-processed?

10 oz Cereals and their products Sold in the United States

Pack of 365 Peanut Butter Balls

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 15 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed cereals and their products

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

corn meal, cane sugar, peanut butter (peanuts, salt), whole grain oat flour, rice flour, corn flour, sea salt, calcium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, mixed tocopherols (vitamin e), added to maintain freshness, barley malt extract

Additives: E306 Tocopherol-rich extract

As written on the pack

Organic corn meal, organic cane sugar, organic peanut butter (organic peanuts, salt), organic whole grain oat flour, organic rice flour, organic corn flour, sea salt, calcium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, mixed tocopherols (vitamin e) added to maintain freshness, organic barley malt extract.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

Preservation and traditional processing

Keep food safe or ferment it, like preservatives and cultures. A sign of processing, not ultra-processing.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 5,066 cereals and their products

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2013th. 57% of the cereals and their products here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 5,066 cereals and their products, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0099482421885, last edited 11 April 2024), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
  • NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.