Larabar Cashew Cookie, 1.7 oz bar

1. Ingredients 25% of the rating 5 of 5

   Two ingredients, cashews and dates, per the maker's page.

2. Fats 15% of the rating 5 of 5

   No added oil: the 12 g of fat per bar comes from the cashews.

3. Sugar & salt 20% of the rating 4 of 5

   0 g added sugar and 5 mg sodium, but 15 g of sugar from the dates, and 5 g of protein and 2 g of fiber.

4. Independent testing 15% of the rating 2 of 5

   Untested scores 2 at most: no published metals result for this flavor, and Lead Safe Mama’s lab found 5.72 ppb lead in the Lemon bar, which is also mostly dates and nuts.

5. Trust 10% of the rating 3 of 5

   No Prop 65 notice named Larabar, but General Mills recalled the Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough flavor in 2018 (terminated); the maker lists no price or origin on the page.

6. Value 15% of the rating 4 of 5

   $1.69 a bar at ShopRite is about $1 an ounce, cheap for a nut and fruit bar.

The rating, 4.0 of 5, is the weighted average of these scores. See how we rank snacks and our standard.

• ShopRite (opens in a new tab) approx. $1.69 for one 1.7 oz bar. Single bar, re-opened 2026-11-06 at $1.69 ($0.99 an ounce).
• Walmart (opens in a new tab) approx. $6.95 for 6 bars (about $1.16 a bar). Six 1.7 oz bars (10.2 oz), shown as reduced from $9.00 on 2026-11-06; we did not read the seller line. Target and Vitacost did not list this flavor in search that day.

Prices as we saw them on November 5, 2026. They change often. These links carry no tracking code and earn us nothing.

1. Cashews
2. Dates

• Independent Lead Safe Mama (community-funded; Simplelab’s Latary lab; of the Lemon flavor, not this one) August 2024

  One 12-bar box of Larabar Lemon, sampled 4 Aug 2024 and reported 15 Aug 2024, heavy metals panel: lead 5.72 µg/kg (ppb; detection limit 1.5); arsenic, cadmium and mercury not detected. The site calls that unsafe by the 2021 Baby Food Safety Act levels, which never became law and were written for baby food. Lemon has six ingredients, not two. No test of Cashew Cookie has been published that we could find. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Does it contain lead?

Not tested that we could find. Lead Safe Mama's lab found 5.72 ppb of lead in one box of the Lemon bar (opens in a new tab) and none of arsenic, cadmium or mercury; that is about 0.27 µg in a 48 g bar by our arithmetic. Lemon is a different bar (six ingredients, dates, almonds, cashews and lemon), and the site judges it against proposed baby-food levels that are not law. Dates and nuts can carry lead, so treat Cashew Cookie as unchecked, not as clean or as failed.

Is it too sugary?

It has no added sugar, but 15 g of sugars per bar come from the dates (maker nutrition panel (opens in a new tab)). Our added sugar guide is about added sugar; the bar's sugar comes with fruit and nuts.

Any recalls, lawsuits or Prop 65 notices?

openFDA lists one terminated 2018 General Mills recall for Larabar Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, for possible plastic pieces (openFDA (opens in a new tab)). No Prop 65 notice names Larabar or General Mills for a Larabar, searched 2026-11-05 by alleged violator only.

• Two ingredients and nothing else, per the maker.
• No added sugar, no added oil, 5 mg sodium.
• About $1.69 a bar, the lowest price per bar of the snacks we list.

• Not tested for metals, and a sibling flavor had 5.72 ppb of lead in one outside test.
• 15 g of sugar per bar, all from dates.
• The maker's page gives no price or origin.

1. Larabar: Cashew Cookie. Maker’s page. Ingredients, nutrition panel and claims, seen 2026-11-05. No price on the page. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)
2. Lead Safe Mama: Larabar Lemon lab report. Test report. Lemon flavor: lead 5.72 ppb, arsenic, cadmium and mercury not detected (lab report image on the page). The site is community funded and earns affiliate income. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)
3. openFDA: food enforcement reports. Certifier or regulator listing. Searched 2026-11-05: one terminated 2018 General Mills recall of Larabar Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)
4. California Attorney General: Prop 65 60-day notice search. Certifier or regulator listing. Searched by alleged violator for Larabar on 2026-11-05: no notice. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)
5. ShopRite: Larabar Cashew Cookie Bar. Independent source. $1.69, re-opened 2026-11-06. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)
6. Walmart: Larabar Cashew Cookie, 6 count. Independent source. $6.95 for six bars, seen 2026-11-06. Open ↗ (opens in a new tab)

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