Is Kashi 🇺🇸Solana Beach California Organic Blueberry Bliss, Oat Granola ultra-processed?

389 g Breakfast cereals Sold in Canada

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Flavouring
Invert sugar

20 ingredients
3 additives
Nutri-Score D

Less processed breakfast cereals

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

oats, rice, sugars (processing marker) (cane syrup, invert cane syrup (ultra-processing marker)), blueberry granola clusters (rolled oats, cane sugar (processing marker), brown rice syrup, whole oat flour, canola oil, brown rice flour, blueberries, natural flavour (ultra-processing marker), elderberry juice concentrate), salt (processing marker), natural flavour (ultra-processing marker), baking soda, mixed tocopherols (for freshness)

Additives: E306 Tocopherol-rich extract , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

organic whole grain steel cut oats, organic rice, sugars (organic cane syrup, organic invert cane syrup), organic blueberry granola clusters (organic whole grain rolled oats, organic cane sugar, organic brown rice syrup, organic whole oat flour, organic canola oil, organic brown rice flour, organic dried blueberries, organic natural flavour, organic elderberry juice concentrate), salt, organic natural flavour, baking soda, mixed tocopherols (for freshness). contains: oat.

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.

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.

Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.

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 1,869 breakfast cereals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1421st. 60% of the breakfast cereals 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 1,869 breakfast cereals, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0018627104179, last edited 22 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.