Is Great Value Chocolate Chip Chewy Granola 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:
- 49 ingredients
- 6 additives
- Nutri-Score D
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Granola (rolled oats, brown rice flour, sugar (processing marker), whole wheat flakes, high oleic canola oil, molasses (processing marker), enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), calcium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, nonfat dry milk (processing marker), soy lecithin (ultra-processing marker), caramel color), corn syrup (ultra-processing marker), semisweet chocolate chunks (sugar (processing marker), chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, dextrose (ultra-processing marker), soy lecithin (ultra-processing marker), vanillin (an artificial flavor (ultra-processing marker))), brown rice flour, sugar (processing marker), corn syrup solids (ultra-processing marker), glycerin (ultra-processing marker), oil (coconut oil (processing marker), palm oil), invert sugar (ultra-processing marker), less than 2% of (calcium carbonate), molasses (processing marker), soy lecithin (ultra-processing marker), salt (processing marker), cocoa, citric acid, natural and artificial flavors (ultra-processing marker), mixed tocopherols (a preservative (processing marker)), caramel color, prune
Additives: E150c Ammonia caramel , E306 Tocopherol-rich extract , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E330 Citric acid , E422 Glycerol
As written on the pack
Granola (whole grain rolled oats, whole grain brown rice flour, sugar, whole wheat flakes, high oleic canola oil, molasses, enriched wheat flour [bleached wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], calcium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, nonfat dry milk, soy lecithin, caramel color), corn syrup, semisweet chocolate chunks (sugar, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, anhydrous dextrose, soy lecithin, vanillin [an artificial flavor]), whole grain brown rice flour, sugar, corn syrup solids, glycerin, dried coconut, palm oil, invert sugar, less than 2% of: calcium carbonate, molasses, soy lecithin, salt, cocoa, citric acid, natural and artificial flavors, mixed tocopherols (a preservative), caramel color, prune juice concentrate.
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.
- E150c Ammonia caramel Ammonia caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars with ammonia compounds.
- 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.
- Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
- Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
- Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
5 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.
- Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
- 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.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0078742059716, last edited 31 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.