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Is Kind Strawberry Sunflower Seed ultra-processed?

8.4 oz Mixed nuts and dried fruits Sold in the United States

Pack of Kind Strawberry Sunflower Seed

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:

  • 17 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed mixed nuts and dried fruits

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

Sunflower seeds, almonds, peanuts, chicory root fiber, cane sugar, pumpkin seeds, honey, palm kernel oil, glucose syrup, cranberries, oat milk, rice flour, strawberries, natural flavor, soy lecithin, sea salt, rosemary extract

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E392 Extracts of rosemary

As written on the pack

Sunflower seeds, almonds, peanuts, chicory root fiber, cane sugar, pumpkin seeds, honey, palm kernel oil, glucose syrup, dried cranberries, oat milk powder, rice flour, dried strawberries, natural flavor, soy lecithin, sea salt, rosemary 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.
  • 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.
3 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.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 26 mixed nuts and dried fruits

From least to most processed, this one ranks 23rd. 58% of the mixed nuts and dried fruits 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 26 mixed nuts and dried fruits, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0602652433542, last edited 16 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.