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Is Nature's Path Smart Bran - A delicious high fibre blend of wheat, psyllium, and oat bran ultra-processed?

300 g Cereal brans Sold in Canada

Pack of Nature's Path Smart Bran - A delicious high fibre blend of wheat, psyllium, and oat bran

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:

  • 8 ingredients
  • No additives

Less processed cereal brans

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

Wheat bran, Oat fibre, cane sugar, barley malt extract, Psyllium seed husk, Oat bran, Whole oat flour, Sea salt

As written on the pack

Wheat bran, Oat fibre, cane sugar, barley malt extract, Psyllium seed husk, Oat bran, Whole oat flour, Sea salt.

What makes it ultra-processed

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.

  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
2 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 17 cereal brans

From least to most processed, this one ranks 16th. 12% of the cereal brans 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 17 cereal brans, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0058449771029, last edited 19 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.