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Is Quaker Chewy Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Granola Bar ultra-processed?

24 g Chocolate cereal bars Sold in the United States

Pack of Quaker Chewy Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Granola Bar

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:

  • 40 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed cereal bars

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

granola, oats, brown sugar, brown rice crisp, brown rice flour, sugar, salt, sorghum, canola oil, whole wheat flour, corn flour, brown rice flour, sugar, salt, semisweet chocolate chips, sugar, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, soy lecithin, vanilla extract, corn syrup, peanut, sugar, palm kernel, palm oil, peanut flour, lactose, whey, dextrose, confectioner's glaze, soy lecithin, peanuts, salt, contains 2% and less of (calcium carbonate), sorbitol, salt, natural flavor, tocopherols, to preserve freshness

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E420 Sorbitol

As written on the pack

granola, whole grain oats, brown sugar, brown rice crisp, whole grain brown rice flour, sugar, salt, whole grain sorghum, canola oil, whole wheat flour, whole grain corn flour, whole grain brown rice flour, sugar, salt, semisweet chocolate chips, sugar, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, soy lecithin, vanilla extract, corn syrup, peanut flavored chips, sugar, palm kernel and palm oil, partially defatted peanut flour, lactose, whey, dextrose, confectioner's glaze, soy lecithin, peanuts, salt, contains 2% or less of: calcium carbonate, sorbitol, salt, natural flavor, tocopherols, to preserve freshness

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.
  • E420 Sorbitol Sorbitol is a sugar alcohol used as a sweetener and to keep products moist.
  • 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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
  • Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
3 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.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 62 chocolate cereal bars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 42nd. 100% of the chocolate cereal bars 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 62 chocolate cereal bars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 03077601, last edited 12 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.