Is Kashi Vanilla Almond ultra-processed?

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Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Flavouring

18 ingredients
2 additives
Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

oats, Sugars (processing marker) (brow sugar, brown rice syrup), Almonds, Crisp rice (rice flour, cane sugar (processing marker), salt (processing marker)), Expeller pressed I canola oil, oat flour, Flaxseeds, Natural flavour (ultra-processing marker), Sea salt (processing marker), Vanilla extract, Baking soda, Ingrédients, Avains Sucres

Additives: E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Whole grain oats, Sugars (brow sugar, brown rice syrup), Almonds, Crisp rice (rice flour, cane sugar, salt), Expeller pressed I canola oil, Whole grain oat flour, Flaxseeds, Natural flavour, Sea salt, Vanilla extract, Baking soda. Contains: Oats, Almond. May contain: Other tree nuts. Ingrédients - Avains Sucres

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.

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

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0018627115304, last edited 21 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 C (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.