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Is Lärabar Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip ultra-processed?

12 Nut bars Sold in the United States

Pack of Lärabar Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 4 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed sweet snacks

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

dates, peanuts, semisweet chocolate chips, sea salt

As written on the pack

dates, peanuts, semisweet chocolate chips, sea salt

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 130 nut bars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 6th. 84% of the nut bars 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 130 nut bars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0021908122854, 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.
  • 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.