Blueberry Fig Bar

How it scored 45 / 100

Nutrition snapshot

Ingredients 20 listed

• 1 Wholemeal Flour
  Flour milled from the entire wheat kernel including bran, germ, and endosperm.
  Low
• 2 Fig Paste
  Paste made from ground or pureed figs (Ficus carica), often with added sugar.
  Low
• 3 Cane Sugar
  Sucrose (a disaccharide of glucose and fructose) crystallized from sugar cane juice; chemically identical to beet sugar.
  Moderate
• 4 Brown Rice Syrup
  Sweetener produced by enzymatically converting brown rice starch to maltose, maltotriose, and glucose.
  Moderate
• 5 Blueberry Filling
  A composite filling typically containing blueberries, sugar/sweeteners, thickeners (modified starch, pectin), and preservatives.
  Moderate
• 6 Canola Oil
  Edible oil pressed from low-erucic-acid varieties of Brassica napus or B. campestris (rapeseed). Refined, bleached, deodorized, and standard…
  Low
• 7 Oat
  Whole grain Avena sativa, available as groats, steel-cut, rolled, or instant oats.
  Safe
• 8 Glycerol
  Glycerol (glycerin, E422) is a sugar alcohol that is a colorless, viscous, sweet-tasting liquid.
  Low
• 9 Fruit Juice
  Liquid extracted from fruit (single or blends), with or without reconstitution from concentrate.
  Low
• 10 Sea Salt
  Sodium chloride (NaCl) obtained by evaporating seawater. Chemically identical to mined/refined salt, with trace minerals depending on source…
  Low
• 11 Natural Flavouring
  A regulatory umbrella term (21 CFR 101.22) for flavor extracts derived from spices, fruit, vegetable, herb, bark, root, leaf, meat, seafood,…
  Low
• 12 Citric Acid
  Citric acid (E330), a weak organic acid naturally present in citrus fruit and produced commercially via Aspergillus niger fermentation.
  Low
• 13 Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate
  Sodium hydrogen carbonate (sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO3), commonly known as baking soda.
  Low
• 14 Naturally Milled Sugar
  Marketing term for sugar processed without certain bone-char filtration or chemical refining steps; nutritionally identical to refined sugar…
  Moderate
• 15 Rice Starch
  Starch isolated from rice kernels (Oryza sativa) by wet milling.
  Low
• 16 Blueberry
  Fruit of Vaccinium species (highbush, lowbush, rabbiteye blueberries).
  Safe
• 17 Apple
  Fruit of Malus domestica, eaten fresh or used in cooking and processing.
  Safe
• 18 Pectin
  Pectin (E440a) is a natural soluble fiber polysaccharide found in fruit cell walls.
  Low
• 19 Locust Bean Gum
  Galactomannan polysaccharide extracted from seeds of the carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua).
  Low
• 20 Colour
  Generic ingredient term covering any of dozens of permitted colour additives — synthetic dyes (e.g. tartrazine E102, allura red E129, brilli…
  Low