Is Oats Over Night Shake Chocolate Peanut Butter ultra-processed?

4 serving(bottle) & 8.8 oz(256g) Sold in the United States

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Flavouring
Milk proteins
E322 Lecithins

18 ingredients
2 additives
Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

whole grain rolled oats, protein blend (milk protein concentrate (ultra-processing marker), rice protein), maple sugar (processing marker), peanut flour, date, oat mylk (oat flour, natural flavor (ultra-processing marker)), cocoa powder, natural flavors (ultra-processing marker), chia seeds, flaxseed, hemp hearts, sunflower lecithin (ultra-processing marker), himalayan pink salt (processing marker), monk fruit

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin

As written on the pack

Certified gluten free whole grain rolled oats, protein blend (milk protein concentrate, rice protein), maple sugar, peanut flour, date powder, oat mylk (oat flour, natural flavor), cocoa powder (processed with alkali), natural flavors, chia seeds, flaxseed, hemp hearts, sunflower lecithin, himalayan pink salt, monk fruit. Contains: milk, peanut.

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.

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.

Milk proteins Milk proteins are proteins separated from milk, such as caseinates and whey protein concentrates, added to adjust texture or raise protein content.

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.

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About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0810090751290, last edited 3 November 2024), 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.