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Is Carman's Nut Bar Almond, Cashew & Cranberry ultra-processed?

175 g Nut bars Sold in Australia

Pack of Carman's Nut Bar Almond, Cashew & Cranberry

Yes, it's ultra-processed

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

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 23 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed nut bars

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

Nuts 42% (Peanuts, Almonds 15%, Cashews 8%), Seeds 14% (Pepitas, Sunflower, Sesame), Cranberries 13% (Cranberries, Sugar, Sunflower Oil), Glucose, Golden Syrup, Brown Rice Syrup, Puffed Rice, Psyllium Husks, Apple, Cinnamon, Natural Flavour, Suitable for a diet, products, SOY

As written on the pack

(GM free) Nuts 42% (Peanuts, Almonds 15%, Cashews 8%), Seeds 14% (Pepitas, Sunflower, Sesame), Cranberries 13% (Cranberries, Sugar, Sunflower Oil), Glucose, Golden Syrup, Brown Rice Syrup, Puffed Rice, Psyllium Husks, Apple, Cinnamon, Natural Flavour. Suitable for a vegan diet. CONTAINS: PEANUTS, ALMONDS, CASHEWS AND SESAME. MAY BE PRESENT: OTHER TREE NUTS, MILK PRODUCTS AND SOY.

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.

  • 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.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
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.

  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 130 nut bars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 69th. 84% of the 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 130 nut bars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 9319133332935, last edited 6 June 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.