Chewy granola bar

How it scored 45 / 100

Nutrition snapshot

Ingredients 19 listed

• 1 Oat
  Whole grain Avena sativa, available as groats, steel-cut, rolled, or instant oats.
  Safe
• 2 Agave Syrup
  Sweetener produced by hydrolyzing inulin from agave plants (Agave tequilana, A. salmiana) into a high-fructose syrup (~70–90% fructose).
  Moderate
• 3 Chocolate Chunk
  Pieces of chocolate (typically semisweet or milk chocolate) used as inclusions in baked goods.
  Low
• 4 Brown Rice Syrup
  Sweetener produced by enzymatically converting brown rice starch to maltose, maltotriose, and glucose.
  Moderate
• 5 Brown Rice Crisps
  Crispy puffed or extruded pieces made from brown rice; used as a crunchy ingredient in cereals and bars.
  Low
• 6 Cane Invert Syrup
  Sugar cane syrup partially hydrolyzed into glucose and fructose; sweetener.
  Low
• 7 Sunflower Oil
  Edible vegetable oil pressed from the seeds of Helianthus annuus, typically high in linoleic acid (omega-6) or, in high-oleic varieties, ole…
  Low
• 8 Vegetable Extract
  Generic umbrella term for concentrated extracts derived from one or more vegetables, used for flavor or color.
  Low
• 9 Agar
  Agar-agar: a hydrocolloid polysaccharide extracted from red algae (class Rhodophyceae).
  Low
• 10 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
• 11 Cane Sugar
  Sucrose (a disaccharide of glucose and fructose) crystallized from sugar cane juice; chemically identical to beet sugar.
  Moderate
• 12 Chocolate
  Confection made from cacao products (cocoa solids, cocoa butter), sugar, and often milk and emulsifiers; FDA standard of identity in 21 CFR …
  Low
• 13 Cocoa Butter Safe
• 14 Brown Rice Flour
  Whole-grain flour made by milling unhulled brown rice, retaining bran and germ.
  Low
• 15 Sea Salt
  Sodium chloride (NaCl) obtained by evaporating seawater. Chemically identical to mined/refined salt, with trace minerals depending on source…
  Low
• 16 Shiitake
  Edible mushroom (Lentinula edodes) used fresh or dried.
  Safe
• 17 Spinach
  Leafy green vegetable (Spinacia oleracea).
  Safe
• 18 Beetroot
  The taproot of Beta vulgaris, a deep-red root vegetable. Also a source of natural color (beetroot red, E162).
  Safe
• 19 Broccoli
  Edible green flowering head and stalk of Brassica oleracea var. italica.
  Safe