Is 365 Whole Foods Market Organic Peanut Butter & Cocoa Balls ultra-processed?

10 oz Breakfast cereals Sold in the United States

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Flavouring
Cocoa powder
E170 Calcium carbonates

19 ingredients
5 additives
Nutri-Score D

Less processed breakfast cereals

Sprouted Rolled Oats One Degree Organic Foods 1 ingredient · no additives NOVA group 1
Old Fashioned Oats Quaker Oats 1 ingredient · no additives NOVA group 1
Quick 1-Minute Oats Quaker Oats 1 ingredient · no additives NOVA group 1
Old Fashioned 100% Whole Grain Rolled Oats Quaker Oats 1 ingredient · no additives NOVA group 1

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 flour, corn flour, cane sugar (processing marker), peanut butter (peanuts, salt (processing marker)), oat flour, cocoa powder (ultra-processing marker), rice flour, oat hull fiber, sea salt (processing marker), calcium carbonate (ultra-processing marker), natural flavor (ultra-processing marker), baking soda (sodium bicarbonate), mixed tocopherols (vitamin e), added to maintain freshness (processing marker), malted barley extract

Additives: E170 Calcium carbonates , E170i Calcium carbonate , E306 Tocopherol-rich extract , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Organic corn flour, organic whole grain corn flour, organic cane sugar, organic peanut butter (organic peanuts, salt), organic whole grain oat flour, organic cocoa powder (processed with alkali)*, organic rice flour, organic oat hull fiber, sea salt, calcium carbonate, natural flavor, baking soda (sodium bicarbonate), mixed tocopherols (vitamin e) added to maintain freshness. organic malted barley extract.

What makes it ultra-processed

Cosmetic additives

Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.

E170 Calcium carbonates Calcium carbonate is chalk.
Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

Substances rarely used in home kitchens

Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.

Cocoa powder An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.

3 ingredients that would only make it processed

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

Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,869 breakfast cereals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1606th. 60% of the breakfast cereals 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 1,869 breakfast cereals, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0099482448639, last edited 23 April 2026), 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 D (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.