Junkless Chocolate Chip Chewy Granola Bars

How it scored 45 / 100

Nutrition snapshot

Ingredients 16 listed

• 1 Rolled Oats Blend —
• 2 Brown Rice Syrup
  Sweetener produced by enzymatically converting brown rice starch to maltose, maltotriose, and glucose.
  Moderate
• 3 Puffed Rice
  Rice grains expanded by heat and pressure, producing a light, crisp cereal.
  Safe
• 4 Dark Chocolate Chunks
  Dark chocolate broken or formed into chunks for baking and snacking; cocoa solids, cocoa butter, sugar, sometimes lecithin and vanilla.
  Low
• 5 Non-Gmo Canola Oil
  Edible oil pressed from canola (Brassica napus / B. rapa) seeds, sourced from non-genetically-modified varieties.
  Safe
• 6 Vanilla Extract
  Vanilla extract is a solution of vanilla bean compounds in ethanol and water.
  Safe
• 7 Oat Flakes
  Rolled or flaked whole grain oats (Avena sativa) produced by steaming and rolling oat groats.
  Safe
• 8 Cane Sugar
  Sucrose (a disaccharide of glucose and fructose) crystallized from sugar cane juice; chemically identical to beet sugar.
  Moderate
• 9 Canola Oil
  Edible oil pressed from low-erucic-acid varieties of Brassica napus or B. campestris (rapeseed). Refined, bleached, deodorized, and standard…
  Low
• 10 Rice Flour
  Flour milled from rice grains.
  Safe
• 11 Sugar
  Sucrose, a disaccharide of glucose and fructose, refined from sugarcane or sugar beets.
  Moderate
• 12 Malt Extract
  Concentrate produced by water extraction of malted barley; contains maltose, other sugars, amino acids, and B-vitamins.
  Low
• 13 Salt
  Sodium chloride (NaCl), a crystalline mineral compound composed of roughly 40% sodium and 60% chloride by mass.
  Low
• 14 Cocoa Paste
  Cocoa paste (chocolate liquor) is the ground product of roasted cacao beans.
  Safe
• 15 Cocoa Butter Safe
• 16 Gmo-Free Soy Lecithin
  Soy lecithin from non-GMO soybeans, a phospholipid mixture used as an emulsifier.
  Low