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Is Kodiak Muffin Mix Chocolate Chip ultra-processed?

14 oz Muffins Sold in the United States

Pack of Kodiak Muffin Mix Chocolate Chip

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:

  • 20 ingredients
  • 6 additives

Less processed muffins

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

wheat flour 100%, cane sugar, oat flour 100%, wheat protein isolate, semisweet chocolate (sugar, chocolate, cocoa butter, dextrose, and sunflower lecithin), whey protein, light molasses (refinery syrup, cane molasses), natural vanilla, flavor, cream of tartar, sea salt, sodium bicarbonate (leavening)

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E336 Potassium tartrates , E336i Monopotassium tartrate , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

100% whole grain wheat flour, organic cane sugar, 100% whole grain oat flour, wheat protein isolate, semisweet chocolate (sugar, unsweetened chocolate, cocoa butter, dextrose, and sunflower lecithin), whey protein concentrate, light molasses (refinery syrup, cane molasses), natural vanilla, flavor, cream of tartar, sea salt, sodium bicarbonate (leavening).

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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Milk proteins Milk proteins are proteins separated from milk, such as caseinates and whey protein concentrates, added to adjust texture or raise protein content.
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.

  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 49 muffins

From least to most processed, this one ranks 26th. 90% of the muffins 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 49 muffins, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0705599013119, last edited 11 May 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.