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Is Millville Sweet Salty Nut Granola Bars ultra-processed?

7.4 oz (210g) Cereal bars Sold in the United States

Pack of Millville Sweet Salty Nut Granola 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:

  • 37 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

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

peanuts, corn syrup, sugar, rice flour, whole rolled oats, glycerin, palm kernel oil semisweet chocolate chunks 70% cocoa (chocolate liquor, sugar, dextrose, soy lecithin, vanilla extract), almonds, cocoa powder, canola oil (canola oil, ascorbic acid-a preservative, rosemary extract), wheat flakes, salt, gum arabic, maltodextrin, honey, molasses, calcium carbonate, dried malt extract (corn syrup solids, barley malt extract), natural flavor, dry whole milk, natural flavor, soy lecithin, natural flavor, coconut, coconut, not listed, shell fragments

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E392 Extracts of rosemary , E414 Acacia gum , E422 Glycerol

As written on the pack

peanuts, corn syrup, sugar, rice flour, whole rolled oats, glycerin, palm kernel oil semisweet chocolate chunks 70% cocoa (chocolate liquor, sugar, dextrose, soy lecithin, vanilla extract), almonds, cocoa powder, canola oil (canola oil, ascorbic acid-a preservative, rosemary extract), wheat flakes, salt, gum arabic, maltodextrin, honey, molasses, calcium carbonate, dried malt extract (corn syrup solids, barley malt extract), natural flavor (contains peanuts), dry whole milk, natural flavor (contains milk), soy lecithin, natural flavor, dried unsweetened coconut, contains: milk, soy, peanuts, almonds, wheat, coconut, may contain sesame, other tree nuts not listed, may contain nut shell fragments,

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.
  • E414 Acacia gum Gum arabic (acacia gum) is the hardened sap of acacia trees, used to stabilise flavour emulsions in soft drinks and to coat sweets.
  • E422 Glycerol Glycerol is a sweet-tasting liquid used to keep products moist and soft.
  • 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.
  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 488 cereal bars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 368th. 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 4099100115987, last edited 12 January 2025), 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.