Brand
Nature Valley
Made by
General Mills
Aisle
Snack bars and fruit snacks
Kind
protein bar
Barcode
00016000497061

Nature Valley

Nature Valley Protein Peanut Butter Dark Chocolate Chewy Bar

Chewy peanut bar built on soy protein and chicory-root fibre, studded with semisweet chocolate chips.

Label check

Flagged ingredients2

Fails 2 of 5 standards. Read from the ingredient list below; what each check counts.

What was flagged, and the words it was read from

IngredientCheckOn the label as
Corn syrupCorn syrupCORN SYRUP
Canola oilSeed oilsVEGETABLE OILS (PALM, PALM KERNEL, CANOLA, PEANUT)

Ingredients as listed

Roasted Peanuts, Soy Protein Isolate, Chicory Root Extract, Semisweet Chocolate Chips (sugar, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, soy lecithin, natural flavor), Vegetable Oils (palm, palm kernel, canola, peanut), Sugar, Whey Protein Concentrate, Corn Syrup, Fructose, Peanut Butter (peanuts, salt), Vegetable Glycerin, Rice Starch, Cocoa, Soy Lecithin, Salt, Corn Starch, Natural Flavor.

Source: the label filed with USDA’s branded food database (record 2738684). 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 protein bar first, then the rest of the snack bars and fruit snacks aisle. Each fails fewer than 2 of the checks; fewest flags first.