Is Bear Carrot cake bars ultra-processed?

4 x 27 g Fruits cereal bars Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Bear Carrot cake bars

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.

  • 8 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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

dates, oats 22%, cashews 10%, soluble fibre from tapioca starch, carrot 9%, sultanas 5%, cinnamon, nutmeg

As written on the pack

dates43%, gluten free oats 22%, cashews 10%, soluble fibre from tapioca starch, carrot 9%, sultanas 5%, cinnamon, nutmeg

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 73 fruits cereal bars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2nd. 88% of the fruits cereal 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 73 fruits cereal bars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060139435567, 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.