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Is Nature's Path Love Crunch Dark Chocolate & Peanut Butter Granola ultra-processed?

Crunchy cereal clusters Sold in the United States and France

Pack of Nature's Path Love Crunch Dark Chocolate & Peanut Butter Granola

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:

  • 17 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed crunchy cereal clusters

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, cane sugar, peanut butter, sunflower oil, peanuts, dark chocolate chunks (cane sugar, chocolate, cocoa butter, vanilla), cocoa, rice starch, sea salt, flavor, honey, tocopherols (vitamin e)

Additives: E306 Tocopherol-rich extract

As written on the pack

Rolled oats*, cane sugar*, peanut butter*, sunflower oil*, peanuts*, fair trade dark chocolate chunks* (cane sugar*, unsweetened chocolate*, cocoa butter*, vanilla*), cocoa*, rice starch*, sea salt, flavor*, honey*, tocopherols (vitamin e).

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.

  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
6 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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • 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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 72 crunchy cereal clusters

From least to most processed, this one ranks 39th. 81% of the crunchy cereal clusters 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 72 crunchy cereal clusters, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0058449162070, last edited 15 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.