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Is Ghost Peanut Butter Protein Cereal ultra-processed?

Cereals and their products Sold in the United States

Pack of Ghost Peanut Butter Protein Cereal

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:

  • 26 ingredients
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed cereals and their products

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 Protein Concentrate, Sodium Caseinate, Soy Protein Isolate, Peanut Butter (Peanuts, Sugar, Salt), Sugar, Allulose, Peanut Flour, Palm Oil, Palm Kernel Oil, Canola, Sunflower Oil, Whey Protein, Nonfat Dry Milk, Salt, Calcium Carbonate, Soy Lecithin, Sucralose, Natural Flavor, Rosemary Extract, Turmeric Extract (color), Vitamin E (mixed tocopherols)

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E306 Tocopherol-rich extract , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E392 Extracts of rosemary , E955 Sucralose

As written on the pack

Milk Protein Concentrate, Sodium Caseinate, Soy Protein Isolate, Peanut Butter (Peanuts, Sugar, Salt), Sugar, Allulose, Peanut Flour, Palm Oil, Palm Kernel Oil, Canola and/or Sunflower Oil, Whey Protein Concentrate, Nonfat Dry Milk, Salt, Calcium Carbonate, Soy Lecithin, Sucralose, Natural Flavor, Rosemary Extract, Turmeric Extract (color), Vitamin E (mixed tocopherols)

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.

  • E100 Curcumin 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.
  • 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.
  • E955 Sucralose Sucralose is a sweetener made by chlorinating sugar.
  • 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.

  • Milk proteins Milk proteins are proteins separated from milk, such as caseinates and whey protein concentrates, added to adjust texture or raise protein content.
4 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.
  • 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 5,066 cereals and their products

From least to most processed, this one ranks 4760th. 57% of the cereals and their products 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 5,066 cereals and their products, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0016000222083, last edited 30 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.