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Is Nature Valley Crunchy Oats & Dark Chocolate ultra-processed?

5x84g Cereal bars Sold in the United Kingdom, Ireland and 3 more countries

Pack of Nature Valley Crunchy Oats & Dark Chocolate

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
  • 3 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

rolled oats 56%, sugar, vegetable oils (rapeseed vegetable oils, sunflower vegetable oils), dark chocolate pieces 6.9% (cocoa mass, sugar, rapeseed, sunflower, soy lecithins, natural vanilla flavouring), fat reduced cocoa powder 1.1%, honey, salt, sugar, rapeseed, sunflower lecithins, sodium bicarbonate, natural chocolate flavouring

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

As written on the pack

Whole grain rolled oats (56%), sugar, vegetable oils (rapeseed, sunflower), dark chocolate pieces (6.9%) (cocoa mass, sugar, emulsifier (rapeseed, sunflower, soy lecithins), natural vanilla flavouring), fat reduced cocoa powder (1.1%), honey, salt, sugar molasses, emulsifiers (rapeseed, sunflower lecithins), raising agent (sodium bicarbonate), natural chocolate flavouring

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.
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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • 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 161st. 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 8410076600479, last edited 25 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.