Is Bear Forest fruit bars ultra-processed?
It's processed, but not ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Whole foods combined with:
- 8 ingredients
- No additives
- Nutri-Score C
Less processed confectioneries
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
dates 47%, oats 23%, sultanas 10%, tapioca starch (processing marker), cashews 7%, raspberries 2.6%, strawberries 1.5%, blackcurrant 1.5%
As written on the pack
dates 47%, gluten free oats 23%, sultanas 10%, tapioca starch, cashews 7%, freeze dried raspberries 2.6%, freeze dried strawberries 1.5%, freeze dried blackcurrant powder 1.5%
What makes it processed
Culinary ingredients
Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.
- Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
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.
Among 1,731 confectioneries
From least to most processed, this one ranks 119th. 90% of the confectioneries here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060139435550, 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.