If you don’t have time to prepare a snack at home with fresh and wholesome ingredients, packaged cereal bars can be an alternative for when you’re out and about and looking for a hunger buster. However, not all of them are the same: in the supermarket we find many different types and flavours, and not all of them are the same in terms of ingredients and nutritional values.
These are the main variations:
Altroconsumo has tested more than 100, evaluating their nutritional values and list of ingredients, and has selected the best ones.
The best granola bars
Below we bring you the best cereal bars of the test. Only 8 out of 100 get a “good” or “very good” score:
How the test was conducted
Altroconsumo analyzed around 120 cereal bars, considering ingredients, nutritional values and overall quality. The evaluation takes multiple factors into account to offer a score from 0 to 100.
The main parameters taken into account are:
The products were purchased in supermarkets and discount stores in March 2025 and classified into score bands: Very good (80-100), Good (60-79), Acceptable (40-59), Poor (20-39) and Very poor (0-19).
