Is Nature Valley sweet and salty granola bars peanut ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 30 ingredients
- 6 additives
- Nutri-Score C
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
roasted peanuts, corn syrup, oats, sugar (processing marker), rice flour, palm kernel oil, vegetable glycerin (ultra-processing marker), whey (ultra-processing marker), peanut butter (peanuts, salt (processing marker)), fructose (ultra-processing marker), canola oi, salt (processing marker), soy lecithin (ultra-processing marker), peanut flour, corn starch (processing marker), barley malt extract, honey roasted almond butter (almonds, honey (processing marker), maltodextrin (ultra-processing marker), palm oil, mixed tocopherols), baking soda, natural flavor (ultra-processing marker), vitamin e (mixed tocopherols), added to retain freshness, ingredients
Additives: E306 Tocopherol-rich extract , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E422 Glycerol , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate
As written on the pack
roasted peanuts, corn syrup, whole grain oats, sugar, rice flour, palm kernel oil, vegetable glycerin, whey, peanut butter (peanuts, salt), fructose, canola oi, salt, soy lecithin, peanut flour, corn starch, barley malt extract, honey roasted almond butter (almonds, honey, maltodextrin, palm oil, mixed tocopherols), baking soda, natural flavor, vitamin e (mixed tocopherols) added to retain freshness. contains peanut, milk, soy, and almond ingredients.
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.
- 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.
- Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
- Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
- Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn 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.
Among 42 peanut bars
From least to most processed, this one ranks 28th. 90% of the peanut bars here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0016000168794, last edited 30 October 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 C (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.