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Nature Valley Sweet & Salty Nut Toasted Coconut Granola Bar

by Nature Valley

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0016000515598 · Nature Valley · Plant-based foods and beverages. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0016000515598 · Serving size 1 bar (35 g) (35 g)

The verdict

Nature Valley Sweet & Salty Nut Toasted Coconut Granola Bar by Nature Valley scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 26 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 26-component label is layered, beginning with Roasted Peanuts, Corn Syrup, Sugar. Start with any flagged rows, then check the nutrition grade and serving size instead of treating one roll-up score as the whole decision. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.

100/100
Safe safety score
0
None flagged · of 26 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
E
Nutri-Score nutrition grade

Computed directly from OpenFoodFacts ingredient data cross-referenced with FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings. See our methodology for the scoring formula.

Composite profile score

One verdict from three independent sources

58/100

Grade C

Ingredient Safety

100/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

E

Nutri-Score front-of-pack nutrition grade

Weighted 50% ingredient safety / 25% processing level / 25% nutrition grade. A dimension with no data for this product (common: source coverage is partial) is dropped and its weight redistributes across the remaining dimensions, so missing data never silently lowers the score. See the full benchmark table.

00515598 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Nature Valley Sweet & Salty Nut Toasted Coconut Granola Bar label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 100/100 FLAG-CLEAN 0 flagged LEN-LAYERED 26 ing. REG-SPARSE 23% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-E Nutri-E RANK-SHORT Len top 14% LEAD-FLAG Fructose PHOTO-FINISH Fiber One Protein · ±0 BOOK-OFF …515598 · July 2026

6 of 26 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Fructose). Source sheet 00515598 · Open Food Facts · July 2026. The screening score and flag counts are in the verdict band above. This desk is the provenance stamp, not a second scorecard. Methodology · Read with nearest score peer: Fiber One Protein Chocolate Pretzel Nut Chewy Bar · Nearest score peer is Fiber One Protein Chocolate Pretzel Nut Chewy Bar at the same screening score.

Screening model notes

How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record

Within the four-tier shelf-label framework this site publishes, the composite for this product falls in the highest band. That band is defined by a threshold on the derived score alone: it is where labels land once components carrying caution-or-worse registry ratings contribute little or nothing to the deduction. The band is a summary of what the screened registries return for the components that were parsed, so it inherits their coverage gaps — a component absent from both registries neither raises nor lowers the figure. The threshold and the weighting behind it are set out on the methodology page.

Nutri-Score assigned its lowest band to this label. The algorithm reserves that grade for nutrition panels where the values it penalises sit well above the components it credits. The two systems on this page measure genuinely different things: a product can hold this grade while carrying no additive flagged by the registries screened below, and a product graded well can carry several. Neither reading substitutes for the other, and the per-component table is where the additive picture is set out.

This label parsed into a long component list. Where many entries are screened at once, the composite tends to reflect the overall mix of registry ratings returned rather than the rating of any one entry. Longer declarations also carry more sub-listed and compound entries, where a parenthetical group is resolved into its parts, so the parsed count can exceed what a reader counts on the packaging.

Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood

1. Nature Valley Sweet & Salty Nut Toasted Coconut Granola Bar: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Nature Valley Sweet & Sal…100/1002. Fiber One Protein Chocolate Pretzel Nut Chewy Bar: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Fiber One Protein Chocola…100/1003. Layered Chewy Bars: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Layered Chewy Bars100/1004. Layered Chewy Bar: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Layered Chewy Bar100/1005. Sweet Rewards: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Sweet Rewards100/100
High-band neighbours for Nature Valley Sweet & Salty Nut Toasted Coconut Granola Bar (100/100) outside Nature Valley.
Chart values as text

Unit: PlainFoodSafe screening score out of 100. Data current as of July 2026.

Nature Valley Sweet & Salty Nut Toasted Coconut Granola Bar
100/100
Fiber One Protein Chocolate Pretzel Nut Chewy Bar
100/100
Layered Chewy Bars
100/100
Layered Chewy Bar
100/100
Sweet Rewards
100/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 78,450 products we've scored in the Plant-based foods and beverages category, the average safety score is 97.7/100. Nature Valley Sweet & Salty Nut Toasted Coconut Granola Bar scores 2.3 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 97.7/100), so it is roughly typical for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.

Ingredient-list length vs other Plant-based foods and beverages products

Nature Valley Sweet & Salty Nut Toasted Coconut Granola Bar lists 26 ingredients on its label

26 86th percentile a longer ingredient list than 86% of the 63,434 products we track

0–2: 3,907 products (6%). Below this entry. 2–4: 7,921 products (12%). Below this entry. 4–6: 8,845 products (14%). Below this entry. 6–8: 7,032 products (11%). Below this entry. 8–10: 6,320 products (10%). Below this entry. 10–12: 4,190 products (7%). Below this entry. 12–14: 3,449 products (5%). Below this entry. 14–16: 3,051 products (5%). Below this entry. 16–18: 2,493 products (4%). Below this entry. 18–20: 2,053 products (3%). Below this entry. 20–22: 1,808 products (3%). Below this entry. 22–24: 1,758 products (3%). Below this entry. 24–26: 1,623 products (3%). Below this entry. 26–28: 1,606 products (3%). This entry sits in this band. 28–30: 1,360 products (2%). Above this entry. 30–32: 1,198 products (2%). Above this entry. 32–34: 1,081 products (2%). Above this entry. 34–36: 901 products (1%). Above this entry. 36–38: 649 products (1%). Above this entry. 38–40: 534 products (1%). Above this entry. 40–42: 1,655 products (3%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Plant-based foods and beverages product, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more products. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Distribution as text

63,434 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 26 (86th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
3,907 products (6%)
2–4
7,921 products (12%)
4–6
8,845 products (14%)
6–8
7,032 products (11%)
8–10
6,320 products (10%)
10–12
4,190 products (7%)
12–14
3,449 products (5%)
14–16
3,051 products (5%)
16–18
2,493 products (4%)
18–20
2,053 products (3%)
20–22
1,808 products (3%)
22–24
1,758 products (3%)
24–26
1,623 products (3%)
26–28
1,606 products (3%)
28–30
1,360 products (2%)
30–32
1,198 products (2%)
32–34
1,081 products (2%)
34–36
901 products (1%)
36–38
649 products (1%)
38–40
534 products (1%)
40 and above
1,655 products (3%)

Source Open Food Facts, product label ingredient lists · July 2026

Ingredient-list length is a descriptive property of the label, not a safety rating. A longer list is not automatically worse and a shorter one is not automatically better; the count is shown so the label can be placed against a comparable population. The comparison here runs against the 63,434 Plant-based foods and beverages products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.

Full Ingredient List

Roasted peanuts, corn syrup, sugar, whole grain oats, palm kernel oil, toasted coconut, rice flour, whole grain wheat, vegetable glycerin, honey roasted almond butter (almonds, honey, maltodextrin, palm oil, mixed tocopherols), whey, fructose, canola oil, salt, soy lecithin, corn starch, barley malt extract, baking soda, natural flavor, vitamin e (mixed tocopherols) added to retain freshness.

Categories

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High-score cross-brand comparables for Nature Valley Sweet & Salty Nut Toasted Coconut Granola Bar

Neighbours outside Nature Valley with screening scores in the same high band as Nature Valley Sweet & Salty Nut Toasted Coconut Granola Bar (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Nature Valley; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Fructose is the first flagged ingredient selected from Nature Valley Sweet & Salty Nut Toasted Coconut Granola Bar's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 26-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Fructose. Open Fructose
  • Compare Nature Valley Sweet & Salty Nut Toasted Coconut Granola Bar's 0 flagged ingredients with a product from the same score neighbourhood. Compare labels
  • Check how caution flags contribute to the derived screening score before drawing a dietary conclusion. Read the method

This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.

Barcode 0016000515598: product data from Open Food Facts (July 2026). Screening from FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine where attached. Figures are computed from those sources, not editor-typed. Methodology. Reference only, not dietary or medical advice.