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Is Soft & Chewy Granola Bar ultra-processed?

24 g Chocolate cereal bars Sold in the United Kingdom and the United States

Pack of Soft & Chewy 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:

  • 30 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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

whole rolled oats, sugar, canola oil, molasses, sodium bicarbonate, soy lecithin, corn syrup, semisweet chocolate (chocolate liquor, sugar, soy lecithin, vanilla extract), crisp rice (rice flour, sugar, dried malt extract (corn syrup solids, barley malt extract), calcium carbonate, salt), fructose, sugar, canola oil, invert sugar, whey powder, ascorbic acid, rosemary extract, natural flavor, coconut, salt

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E392 Extracts of rosemary , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

whole rolled oats, sugar, canola oil, molasses, sodium bicarbonate, soy lecithin, corn syrup, semisweet chocolate (chocolate liquor, sugar, soy lecithin, vanilla extract), crisp rice (rice flour, sugar, dried malt extract (corn syrup solids, barley malt extract), calcium carbonate, salt), fructose, sugar, canola oil, invert sugar, whey powder, ascorbic acid, rosemary extract, natural flavor, dried unsweetened coconut, salt

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.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
  • 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.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
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 61 chocolate cereal bars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 40th. 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 61 chocolate cereal bars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0096619313952, last edited 1 October 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.