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Is Planters Trail mix PEANUT BUTTER CHOCOLATE ultra-processed?

6oz Sold in the United States

Pack of Planters Trail mix PEANUT BUTTER CHOCOLATE

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:

  • 48 ingredients
  • 10 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Peanuts, almonds, peanut butter candy pieces (sugar, hydrogenated palm kernel oil, peanuts, skim milk, includes yellow 5 lake, gum arabic, corn syrup, soy lecithin, salt, confectioner's glaze (carnauba wax, lac-resin)), chocolate candy covered peanuts (milk chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, chocolate, milk, soy lecithin, emulsifier, vanillin, artificial flavor), peanuts, sugar, includes blue 2 lake, yellow 6 lake, yellow 5 lake, red 40 lake, corn syrup, gum arabic, confectioner's glaze (carnauba wax, beeswax, lac-resin), peanut oil), sugar, honey, corn syrup, sea salt, cocoa, fructose, peanut oil, natural flavor, corn starch, xanthan gum

Additives: E102 Tartrazine , E110 Sunset yellow FCF , E129 Allura red , E132 Indigotine , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E414 Acacia gum , E415 Xanthan gum , E901 White and yellow beeswax , E903 Carnauba wax

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E132 Indigotine.

As written on the pack

Peanuts, almonds, peanut butter candy pieces (sugar, hydrogenated palm kernel oil, partially defatted peanuts, skim milk, artificial color [includes yellow 5 lake], gum arabic, corn syrup, soy lecithin, salt, confectioner's glaze [carnauba wax, lac-resin]), chocolate candy covered peanuts (milk chocolate [sugar, cocoa butter, chocolate, milk, soy lecithin - an emulsifier, vanillin - an artificial flavor], peanuts, sugar, artificial color [includes blue 2 lake, yellow 6 lake, yellow 5 lake, red 40 lake], corn syrup, gum arabic, confectioner's glaze [carnauba wax, beeswax, lac-resin], peanut oil), sugar, honey, corn syrup, sea salt, cocoa (processed with alkali), fructose, peanut oil, natural flavor, corn starch, xanthan gum.

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.

  • E102 Tartrazine Tartrazine is a synthetic yellow azo dye (FD&C Yellow No. 5 in the US).
  • E110 Sunset yellow FCF Sunset yellow FCF is a synthetic orange azo dye (FD&C Yellow No. 6 in the US).
  • E129 Allura red Allura red AC is a synthetic red azo dye (FD&C Red No. 40 in the US).
  • E132 Indigotine Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of 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.
  • E414 Acacia gum Gum arabic (acacia gum) is the hardened sap of acacia trees, used to stabilise flavour emulsions in soft drinks and to coat sweets.
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  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • E901 White and yellow beeswax A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
  • E903 Carnauba wax Carnauba wax comes from the leaves of a Brazilian palm and gives sweets and coated chocolates their shine.
  • Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
  • 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.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
  • Cocoa An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
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

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0029000021112, last edited 19 September 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.