Is Pip & Nut Original Peanut Butter Stuffed Oat Bar ultra-processed?

48g Oat Sold in the United Kingdom and Ireland

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Salt
Vegetable fat
Vegetable oil

13 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score C

Less processed oat

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

Oats 29%, Peanut Butter 22% (Argentinian Peanuts, Sea Salt (processing marker)), Date, Rice Syrup, Argentinian Peanuts 7%, Currants 5%, Pumpkin Seeds 2.5%, Rapeseed Oil, Shea Oil (processing marker), Coconut Oil (processing marker), Peanut Flour

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: Vegetable fat.

As written on the pack

Wholegrain Oats (29%), Peanut Butter (22%) (Argentinian Peanuts, Sea Salt), Date Syrup, Rice Syrup, Argentinian Peanuts (7%), Currants (5%), Pumpkin Seeds (2.5%), Rapeseed Oil, Shea Oil, Coconut Oil, Peanut Flour.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.
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.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 103 oat

From least to most processed, this one ranks 83rd. 16% of the oat 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 103 oat, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060367181946, last edited 27 March 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.