Is Kashi 🇺🇸Solana Beach California Chocolate Chip Chia 7-Grain & Quinoa bars. Made in 🇨🇦 from domestic & impotant ingredients. Prepared for… ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 36 ingredients
- 4 additives
- Nutri-Score D
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
oats, Sugars (processing marker) (cane syrup, molasses), blend (barley, buckwheat, hard red wheat, rye, triticale, quinoa), Dark chocolate chips (cane sugar (processing marker), chocolate, cocoa butter (processing marker), soy lecithin (ultra-processing marker), vanilla bean), Vegetable oil (processing marker), Potato, corn starch (processing marker), Chia seeds, brown rice flour, Coconut, oat flour, Sea salt (processing marker), Natural flavour (ultra-processing marker), Baking soda, Soy lecithin (ultra-processing marker), Calcium carbonate, _Contains (Oats), Barley, Wheat, Rye, Triticale, Soy._
Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate
As written on the pack
Whole grain oats, Sugars (dried cane syrup, molasses), Whole grain blend (barley, buckwheat, hard red wheat, rye, triticale, quinoa), Dark chocolate chips (cane sugar, unsweetened chocolate, cocoa butter, soy lecithin, vanilla bean), Vegetable oil, Potato and/or corn starch, Chia seeds, Whole grain brown rice flour, Coconut, Whole grain oat flour, Sea salt, Natural flavour, Baking soda, Soy lecithin, Calcium carbonate. Contains: Oats, Barley, Wheat, Rye, Triticale, Soy.
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.
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.
- Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
- 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.
Among 488 cereal bars
From least to most processed, this one ranks 179th. 91% of the cereal bars here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0018627102557, last edited 25 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.