Is Clif Bar Clif chocolate chip energy bars ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 48 ingredients
- 4 additives
- Nutri-Score D
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
brown rice syrup, rolled oats, soy protein isolate, cane syrup, soybeans, rice flour, cane sugar (processing marker), unsweetened chocolatet, soy flour, oat fiber (ultra-processing marker), high oleic sunflower oil (processing marker), cocoa butter, barley malt extract, sea salt (processing marker), natural flavors (ultra-processing marker), soy lecithin (ultra-processing marker), cinnamon, vitamins, minerals (dicalcium phosphate), magnesium oxide, ascorbic acid (vit, c), dl-alpha tocopheryl acetate (vit, e), beta carotene (vit, a), niacinamide (vit, b3), ergocalciferol (vit, d2), thiamine mononitrate (vit, b1), pyridoxine hydrochloride (vit, b6), riboflavin (vit, b2), cyanocobalamin (vit, b12)
Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E341 Calcium phosphates , E341ii Dicalcium phosphate
As written on the pack
organic brown rice syrup, organic rolled oats, soy protein isolate, organic cane syrup, organic roasted soybeans, rice flour, cane sugar, unsweetened chocolatet, organic soy flour, organic oat fiber, organic high oleic sunflower oil, cocoa butter , barley malt extract, sea salt, natural flavors, soy lecithin, organic cinnamon, vitamins , minerals: dicalcium phosphate, magnesium oxide, ascorbic acid (vit, c), dl-alpha tocopheryl acetate (vit, e), beta carotene (vit, a), niacinamide (vit, b3), ergocalciferol (vit, d2), thiamine mononitrate (vit, b1), pyridoxine hydrochloride (vit, b6), riboflavin (vit, b2), cyanocobalamin (vit, b12),
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.
- E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.
- 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.
- 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.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0722252660046, last edited 18 July 2022), 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.