Is Kind Dark Chocolate Raspberry Pumpkin Seed ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 30 ingredients
- 3 additives
- Nutri-Score D
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
pumpkin seeds, peanuts, chicory root fiber (ultra-processing marker), sunflower seeds, cane sugar (processing marker), cranberries, almonds, honey (processing marker), palm kernel oil, glucose syrup (ultra-processing marker), rice flour, raspberries, chocolate, alkalized cocoa, soy lecithin (ultra-processing marker), sea salt (processing marker), natural flavor (ultra-processing marker), rosemary extract (to maintain freshness (processing marker)), cocoa butter, shell fragments, brought to you by kind llc p, o, box 705 midtown station ny, ny 10018 1 855‚884, kind kindsnacks, com made in u, s, a, with domestic and imported ingredients
Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E392 Extracts of rosemary
As written on the pack
pumpkin seeds, peanuts, chicory root fiber, sunflower seeds, cane sugar, dried cranberries, almonds, honey, palm kernel oil, glucose syrup, rice flour, dried raspberries, unsweetened chocolate, alkalized cocoa, soy lecithin, sea salt, natural flavor, rosemary extract (to maintain freshness), cocoa butter, allergen information: contains peanuts, almonds and soy, may contain tree nuts, may contain nut shell fragments, brought to you by kind llc p,o, box 705 midtown station ny, ny 10018 1 855,884,kind kindsnacks,com made in u,s,a, with domestic and imported ingredients
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.
- Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
- Glucose syrup 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.
5 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.
- Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
- Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.
Among 487 cereal bars
From least to most processed, this one ranks 303rd. 91% of the cereal bars here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0602652433566, last edited 19 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.