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Is Harvest Morn peanut butter popcorn bars ultra-processed?

4 x 21 g Bars Sold in Ireland

Pack of Harvest Morn peanut butter popcorn bars

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:

  • 25 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed 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

Chicory Root Fibre, peanuts 13%, Fructose Syrup (Fructose, Water), popcorn 9% (Corn, Sunflower Oil), Wheat Flour, oat flakes 8%, Sugar, Vegetable Fats (Palm Fat, Palm Kernel Fat), Rice Flour, peanut paste 2.5%, Whole Milk Powder, Sorbitol, Sunflower Oil, Dextrose, Salt, Lecithins, Sunflower, Soya, Tocopherol-Rich Extract

Additives: E306 Tocopherol-rich extract , E322 Lecithins , E420 Sorbitol

As written on the pack

Chicory Root Fibre, PEANUTS (13%), Fructose Syrup (Fructose, Water), POPCORN (9%) (Corn, Sunflower Oil), Wheat Flour, OAT FLAKES (8%), Sugar, Vegetable Fats (Palm Fat, Palm Kernel Fat), Rice Flour, PEANUT PASTE (2.5%), Whole Milk Powder, Stabiliser: Sorbitol; Sunflower Oil, Dextrose, Salt, Emulsifier: Lecithins (Sunflower, Soya); Antioxidant: Tocopherol-Rich Extract.

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.
  • E420 Sorbitol Sorbitol is a sugar alcohol used as a sweetener and to keep products moist.

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.
  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
6 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 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 1,328 bars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 930th. 89% of the 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 1,328 bars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600343884, last edited 15 August 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.