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Is Crownfield Muesli Bars Chocolate & Banana ultra-processed?

200 g Chocolate cereal bars Sold in the United Kingdom, Bulgaria and 4 more countries

Pack of Crownfield Muesli Bars Chocolate & Banana

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:

  • 43 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed cereal 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

milk chocolate couverture 24% (sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, whole milk powder, skimmed milk powder, clarified butter, lecithins, natural vanilla flavor), glucose-fructose syrup, wheat-rice-corn 15.4%, crispies (wheat flour, rice flour, barley malt flour, sugar, corn flour, table salt), cereal flakes 14.1% (oat flakes, wheat flakes, barley flakes), whole wheat crispies 5.2% (whole wheat flour), banana 5% (banana 2.9%, coconut oil, sugar), cornflakes 4.8% (corn, table salt, barley malt extract), sunflower oil, glycerin, sugar, peanuts, honey, natural flavor, lecithins, caramel sugar syrup (glucose syrup, sugar), table salt

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E422 Glycerol

As written on the pack

24% milk chocolate couverture (sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, whole milk powder, skimmed milk powder, clarified butter, emulsifier: lecithins, natural vanilla flavor), glucose-fructose syrup, 15,4% wheat-rice-corn - crispies (wheat flour, rice flour, barley malt flour, sugar, corn flour, table salt), 14,1% whole grain cereal flakes (oat flakes, wheat flakes, barley flakes), 5,2% whole wheat crispies (whole wheat flour), 5% banana chips (2,9% banana, coconut oil, sugar), 4,8% cornflakes ( corn, table salt, barley malt extract), sunflower oil, humectant: glycerin, sugar, peanuts chopped roasted, honey, natural flavor, emulsifier: lecithins, caramel sugar syrup (glucose syrup, sugar), table salt, may contain traces of soy, nuts and sesame seeds,

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.
  • E422 Glycerol Glycerol is a sweet-tasting liquid used to keep products moist and soft.
  • 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.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
7 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.

  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable fat Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.
  • 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.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 62 chocolate cereal bars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 36th. 100% of the chocolate 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 62 chocolate cereal bars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20080662, last edited 16 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.