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Is Alesto Cashew Crush Raw Fruit & Nut Bar ultra-processed?

35g Cashew nut bars Sold in the United Kingdom and Ireland

Pack of Alesto Cashew Crush Raw Fruit & Nut Bar

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

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

Open Food Facts counts every product in its category, sweet snacks, as at least group 3.

  • 2 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed sweet snacks

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

Ingredients

Cashews 51%, Dates 49%

As written on the pack

51% Cashews, 49% Pitted Dates.

What makes it processed

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 16 cashew nut bars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 4th. 56% of the cashew nut bars 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 16 cashew nut bars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20114466, last edited 27 March 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.