FIG BAR Blueberry

How it scored 45 / 100

Nutrition snapshot

Ingredients 29 listed

• 1 Brown Rice Flour
  Whole-grain flour made by milling unhulled brown rice, retaining bran and germ.
  Low
• 2 Brown Rice Syrup
  Sweetener produced by enzymatically converting brown rice starch to maltose, maltotriose, and glucose.
  Moderate
• 3 Fig Paste
  Paste made from ground or pureed figs (Ficus carica), often with added sugar.
  Low
• 4 Blueberry Jam —
• 5 Canola Oil
  Edible oil pressed from low-erucic-acid varieties of Brassica napus or B. campestris (rapeseed). Refined, bleached, deodorized, and standard…
  Low
• 6 Cane Sugar
  Sucrose (a disaccharide of glucose and fructose) crystallized from sugar cane juice; chemically identical to beet sugar.
  Moderate
• 7 Five Grain Flour —
• 8 Date Paste
  Pitted dates (Phoenix dactylifera) ground to a smooth paste.
  Low
• 9 Oat
  Whole grain Avena sativa, available as groats, steel-cut, rolled, or instant oats.
  Safe
• 10 Glycerol
  Glycerol (glycerin, E422) is a sugar alcohol that is a colorless, viscous, sweet-tasting liquid.
  Low
• 11 Flax Seed
  Seed of the flax plant (Linum usitatissimum), also known as linseed.
  Safe
• 12 Raising Agent
  Umbrella label for one or more leavening agents (e.g., sodium bicarbonate, baking powder, ammonium bicarbonate, monocalcium phosphate).
  Safe
• 13 Sea Salt
  Sodium chloride (NaCl) obtained by evaporating seawater. Chemically identical to mined/refined salt, with trace minerals depending on source…
  Low
• 14 Xanthan Gum
  Xanthan gum is a high-molecular-weight polysaccharide produced by aerobic fermentation of glucose or sucrose by the bacterium Xanthomonas ca…
  Low
• 15 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
• 16 Citric Acid
  Citric acid (E330), a weak organic acid naturally present in citrus fruit and produced commercially via Aspergillus niger fermentation.
  Low
• 17 Naturally Milled Sugar
  Marketing term for sugar processed without certain bone-char filtration or chemical refining steps; nutritionally identical to refined sugar…
  Moderate
• 18 Rice Starch
  Starch isolated from rice kernels (Oryza sativa) by wet milling.
  Low
• 19 Blueberry
  Fruit of Vaccinium species (highbush, lowbush, rabbiteye blueberries).
  Safe
• 20 Apple
  Fruit of Malus domestica, eaten fresh or used in cooking and processing.
  Safe
• 21 Pectin
  Pectin (E440a) is a natural soluble fiber polysaccharide found in fruit cell walls.
  Low
• 22 Locust Bean Gum
  Galactomannan polysaccharide extracted from seeds of the carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua).
  Low
• 23 Amaranth Grain
  Edible whole grain (Amaranthus spp.), an ancient pseudocereal native to the Americas, naturally gluten-free.
  Safe
• 24 Quinoa
  The seed of Chenopodium quinoa, a pseudocereal native to the Andes; complete plant protein.
  Safe
• 25 Millet
  A group of small-grained, gluten-free cereal grasses (Pennisetum, Eleusine, Panicum spp.).
  Safe
• 26 Sorghum
  Whole grain (Sorghum bicolor); a drought-tolerant cereal grain naturally gluten-free.
  Safe
• 27 Teff
  A small-grain ancient cereal (Eragrostis tef) native to Ethiopia and Eritrea; staple of Ethiopian cuisine and gluten-free.
  Safe
• 28 Monocalcium Phosphate
  Monocalcium phosphate (Ca(H2PO4)2), an inorganic acid salt.
  Low
• 29 Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate
  Sodium hydrogen carbonate (sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO3), commonly known as baking soda.
  Low