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Is Day Out Protein Balls ultra-processed?

2 oz Breakfast biscuit Sold in the United States

Pack of Day Out Protein Balls

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

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

Whole foods combined with:

  • 18 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed breakfasts

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

Cashews, dates, superfood protein blend (pea protein, chickpea, sacha inchi, chia seed), almond flour, gluten-free rolled oats, agave, dark chocolate chips (cocoa butter, chocolate, cane sugar), cacao, sugar, coconut vanilla, pink Himalayan salt

As written on the pack

Cashews, dates, organic superfood protein blend (pea protein, chickpea, sacha inchi, chia seed), organic almond flour, gluten-free rolled oats, organic agave, dark chocolate chips (cocoa butter, unsweetened chocolate, cane sugar), organic cacao, sugar, organic coconut vanilla, pink Himalayan salt. Contains: tree nuts.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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 fat Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.

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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 28 breakfast biscuit

From least to most processed, this one ranks 4th. 82% of the breakfast biscuit 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 28 breakfast biscuit, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0860014787508, last edited 22 September 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.