Is Great Value Chocolate Chip Granola ultra-processed?

311 g Cereal clusters with nuts Sold in Ireland

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Dextrose
Flavouring
Glucose
E322 Lecithins

16 ingredients
2 additives
Nutri-Score D

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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

rolled oats, cane sugar (processing marker), canola oil, corn syrup (ultra-processing marker), semi-sweet chocolate chips (sugar (processing marker), chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, dextrose (ultra-processing marker), soy lecithin (ultra-processing marker), vanilla extract), rice flour, brown rice flour, molasses (processing marker), sea salt (processing marker), natural flavor (ultra-processing marker)

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin

As written on the pack

Whole grain rolled oats, cane sugar, canola oil, corn syrup, semi-sweet chocolate chips (sugar, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, anhydrous dextrose, soy lecithin, vanilla extract), rice flour, whole grain brown rice flour, molasses, sea salt, natural flavor.

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.
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.

2 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 21 cereal clusters with nuts

From least to most processed, this one ranks 17th. 81% of the cereal clusters with nuts 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 21 cereal clusters with nuts, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0194346134878, last edited 2 April 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.