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Is Trader Joe's Chocolate Coffee Flavored Granola ultra-processed?

58 g Snacks variety packs Sold in the United States

Pack of Trader Joe's Chocolate Coffee Flavored Granola

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:

  • 25 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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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

rolled oats, cane sugar, canola oil, rice flour, cocoa powder processed with alkali, oat flour, dark chocolate (chocolate, sugar, dextrose, soy lecithin), vanilla extract, honey, coffee, salt, natural flavor, barley malt extract, mixed tocopherols, coconut, hazelnut, sesame, wheat, almond, pecan, walnut

Additives: E306 Tocopherol-rich extract , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin

As written on the pack

ROLLED OATS, CANE SUGAR, CANOLA OIL, RICE FLOUR, COCOA POWDER PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, OAT FLOUR, DARK CHOCOLATE (UNSWEETENED CHOCOLATE, SUGAR, DEXTROSE, SOY LECITHIN), VANILLA EXTRACT, HONEY, COFFEE EXTRACT, SALT, NATURAL FLAVOR, BARLEY MALT EXTRACT, MIXED TOCOPHEROLS. CONTAINS SOY. MAY CONTAIN BRAZIL NUT, CASHEW, COCONUT, HAZELNUT, SESAME, WHEAT, ALMOND, PECAN, WALNUT.

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.

  • 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.
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.

  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 24 snacks variety packs

From least to most processed, this one ranks 18th. 63% of the snacks variety packs 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 24 snacks variety packs, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00797238, last edited 9 April 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.