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Is Leclerc 🇨🇦 Go Pure 🇺🇸 Banana Chocolate-Chip Oatmeal Bars ultra-processed?

5 bars, Net: 175 g Cereal bars Sold in Canada

Pack of Leclerc 🇨🇦 Go Pure 🇺🇸 Banana Chocolate-Chip Oatmeal Bars

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:

  • 22 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed cereal bars

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

Sugars (tapioca syrup, date paste, bananas), Whole rolled oats, Whole wheat flour, Chocolate chips (sugar, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, dextrose, soya lecithin), Canola oil, Natural flavour, Salt, Sodium bicarbonate, milk ingredients, _Contains, Oats, Soya, Wheat._ (always read the label carefully because not all our products are manufactured in a peanut free facility)

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Sugars (tapioca syrup, date paste, dehydrated bananas), Whole rolled oats, Whole wheat flour, Chocolate chips (sugar, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, dextrose, soya lecithin), Canola oil, Natural flavour, Salt, Sodium bicarbonate, Modified milk ingredients. Contains: Milk, Oats, Soya, Wheat. (ALWAYS READ THE LABEL CAREFULLY BECAUSE NOT ALL OUR PRODUCTS ARE MANUFACTURED IN A PEANUT FREE FACILITY.)

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 An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
4 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.
  • Vegetable fat Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 488 cereal bars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 311th. 91% of the cereal 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 488 cereal bars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0064042603254, last edited 25 July 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.