The Better Nut Bar Dark Chocolate & Sea Salt

How it scored 45 / 100

Nutrition snapshot

Ingredients 21 listed

• 1 Roasted Almonds
  Almonds (Prunus dulcis seeds) heated dry or in oil to develop color and flavor.
  Safe
• 2 Cashew Nuts
  Seed of Anacardium occidentale, eaten roasted, salted, or used in cooking.
  Low
• 3 Dark Chocolate Flavored Coating
  A confectionery coating that mimics dark chocolate flavor and appearance but typically uses vegetable oils (palm kernel, coconut, or hydroge…
  Low
• 4 Pumpkin Seed
  Edible seed (kernel) of Cucurbita pepo squash, also called pepita.
  Safe
• 5 Honey
  Natural sweet substance produced by honey bees from flower nectar; primarily fructose and glucose.
  Low
• 6 Sunflower Seed
  Edible seed of the sunflower plant (Helianthus annuus).
  Safe
• 7 Soy Protein Isolate
  Refined protein extracted from defatted soybean flakes, typically ≥90% protein content.
  Low
• 8 Brown Rice Syrup
  Sweetener produced by enzymatically converting brown rice starch to maltose, maltotriose, and glucose.
  Moderate
• 9 Walnut
  Edible seed (kernel) of trees in the Juglans genus, primarily Juglans regia (English walnut).
  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 Soya Lecithin
  A naturally occurring mixture of phospholipids (phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol) extracted from soybean …
  Low
• 13 Tapioca
  Starch extracted from cassava root (Manihot esculenta), sold as flour, pearls, or flakes.
  Safe
• 14 Sugar Syrup
  Aqueous solution of sucrose (and sometimes invert sugar/glucose); simple syrup or industrial sweetener.
  Low
• 15 Soluble Tapioca Fiber
  Soluble dietary fiber derived from tapioca (cassava) starch, often produced via enzymatic conversion (also called isomalto-oligosaccharide f…
  Moderate
• 16 Inulin
  Naturally occurring fructan polysaccharide extracted primarily from chicory root; a soluble dietary fiber and prebiotic.
  Low
• 17 Sugar
  Sucrose, a disaccharide of glucose and fructose, refined from sugarcane or sugar beets.
  Moderate
• 18 Palm Kernel Oil
  Edible oil from kernels (seeds) of oil palm fruit (Elaeis guineensis); ~80% saturated fat (mostly lauric acid).
  Low
• 19 Cocoa Powder
  Cocoa powder is the dry, defatted solid of cacao beans.
  Safe
• 20 Chocolate
  Confection made from cacao products (cocoa solids, cocoa butter), sugar, and often milk and emulsifiers; FDA standard of identity in 21 CFR …
  Low
• 21 Sunflower Lecithin
  Sunflower lecithin is a phospholipid mixture extracted from sunflower seeds.
  Low