Is Kirkland Nut Bar ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 22 ingredients
- 2 additives
- Nutri-Score D
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Almonds, Dark chocolate flavoured coating (chicory root inulin, sugar (processing marker), palm kernel oil (ultra-processing marker), cocoa powder, soy lecithin (ultra-processing marker), salt (processing marker), whole milk powder (processing marker)), Cashews, Fructooligosaccharides (ultra-processing marker), Sunflower seeds, Sugars (processing marker) (honey (processing marker), rice syrup), Pecans, Crisp rice flour, sugar (processing marker), calcium carbonate, salt (processing marker), Sea salt (processing marker), Soy lecithin (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin
As written on the pack
Almonds, Dark chocolate flavoured coating (chicory root inulin, sugar, modified palm kernel oil, cocoa powder, soy lecithin, salt, whole milk powder), Cashews, Fructooligosaccharides, Sunflower seeds, Sugars (honey, rice syrup), Pecans, Crisp rice flour, sugar, calcium carbonate, salt), Sea salt, Soy lecithin
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.
- Sweetener Sweeteners give sweetness with few or no calories, many at hundreds of times the strength of sugar.
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.
- Palm kernel oil An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
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.
- 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.
- Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.
Among 130 nut bars
From least to most processed, this one ranks 63rd. 84% of the nut bars here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0096619188031, last edited 17 September 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.