Is Clifbar Clif Bar, Apricot ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 39 ingredients
- 4 additives
- Nutri-Score D
Less processed apricots
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Organic Apricots Soft & Succulent Dried Turkish Apricots
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2 ingredients · no additives
NOVA group
1
- Apricots dried fruit Target Stores 3 ingredients · 1 additive NOVA group 3
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Apricot halves in fruit juice
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5 ingredients · 1 additive
NOVA group
1
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
brown rice syrup, rolled oats, dried apricots, soy protein isolate, cane syrup, soybeans, soy flour, rice flour, oat fiber (ultra-processing marker), cane syrup, high oleic sunflower oil (processing marker), natural flavors (ultra-processing marker), lemon juice concentrate, rice starch (processing marker), citric acid, sea salt (processing marker), barley malt extract, annatto (ultra-processing marker) (for color (ultra-processing marker)), vitamins, minerals (dicalcium phosphate), magnesium oxide, calcium carbonate, ascorbic acid (vitamin c), dl-alpha tocopheryl acetate (vitamin e), beta carotene (vitamin a), niacinamide (vitamin b3), ergocalciferol, thiamine mononitrate (vitamin b1), pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin b6), riboflavin, cyanocobalamin
Additives: E160b Annatto , E330 Citric acid , E341 Calcium phosphates , E341ii Dicalcium phosphate
As written on the pack
Organic brown rice syrup, organic rolled oats, dried apricots, soy protein isolate, organic cane syrup, organic roasted soybeans, organic soy flour, rice flour, organic oat fiber, dried cane syrup, organic high oleic sunflower oil, natural flavors, lemon juice concentrate, rice starch, citric acid, sea salt, barley malt extract, organic annatto (for color). vitamins & minerals: dicalcium phosphate, magnesium oxide, calcium carbonate, 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.
- E160b Annatto Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
- Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
- 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.
- Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
Among 8 apricots
From least to most processed, this one ranks 8th. 38% of the apricots here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0722252100702, last edited 18 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.