Nature Valley Peanut Butter Soft-Baked Oatmeal Square

Name: Nature Valley Peanut Butter Soft-Baked Oatmeal Square
Brand: Nature Valley

Soft, cake-like oatmeal square with peanut flour, sold as a breakfast bar rather than a crunchy granola bar.

Label check

Flagged ingredients1

Synthetic dyesNone listed
Corn syrupNone listed
Artificial sweetenersNone listed
Seed oilsCanola oil
PreservativesNone listed

Fails 1 of 5 standards. Read from the ingredient list below; what each check counts.

What was flagged, and the words it was read from

Ingredient	Check	On the label as
Canola oil	Seed oils	CANOLA OIL

Ingredients as listed

Whole Grain Oats, Sugar, Whole Wheat Flour, Canola Oil, Peanut Flour, Tapioca Syrup, Peanut Butter (peanuts, salt), Palm and Palm Kernel Oils, Vegetable Glycerin, Honey, Chicory Root Extract, Molasses, Salt, Nonfat Dry Milk, Whey, Baking Soda, Peanut Oil, Soy Lecithin, Egg White, Natural Flavor.

Source: the label filed with USDA’s branded food database (record 2738525). The maker’s page for it is here. Recipes change, and the pack you buy may print a newer list.

Same aisle, fewer flags

More cereal and treat bars first, then the rest of the snack bars and fruit snacks aisle. Each passes all five checks.

Nature Valley Peanut Butter Soft-Baked Oatmeal Square

Label check

What was flagged, and the words it was read from

Ingredients as listed

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