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Is Sahale Snacks Naturally Pomegranate Vanilla Flavored Cashews Glazed Mix ultra-processed?

1.5 oz (42.5g) Cashew nuts Sold in the United States and France

Pack of Sahale Snacks Naturally Pomegranate Vanilla Flavored Cashews Glazed Mix

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:

  • 18 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed cashew nuts

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

cashews, dried apples, unsulfured apples, sugar, natural pomegranate flavor, citric acid, fruit, vegetable juice (for color), cane sugar, tapioca syrup, brown sugar, natural vanilla extract, sea salt, pomegranate, pomegranate juice, orange peel, ground vanilla beans

Additives: E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

cashews, dried apples (unsulfured apples, sugar, natural pomegranate flavor, citric acid, fruit and vegetable juice (for color]), organic cane sugar, organic tapioca syrup, brown sugar, natural vanilla extract, sea salt, dried pomegranate, pomegranate juice concentrate, dried orange peel, pure ground vanilla beans, contains cashews

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.

  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
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 80 cashew nuts

From least to most processed, this one ranks 68th. 24% of the cashew nuts 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 80 cashew nuts, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0893869003288, last edited 25 August 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.