Our first research snapshot, and what this first edition publishes from it

Granola.cat starts from a piece of research: a set of notes on the granola that can be found through businesses in Catalonia, with selected brands from elsewhere in Spain that reach it. The sources behind those notes were checked on 28 October 2026. This report explains what that snapshot is, what this first edition of the site publishes from it, and what neither of them can tell you.

What the snapshot is

The snapshot came from six discovery passes. We searched in Catalan, Spanish and English for local and artisan granola, with the names of the four provinces; followed the cereal shelves of supermarket chains to the brands on them; read producers’ stockist lists, café menus and guesthouse breakfast pages; and widened the search to national and imported brands with a channel that reaches Catalonia. We stopped when two final passes found no new brand that qualified.

That stopping rule applies to those searches and those sources. It doesn’t show that every small bakery, every own-label supplier or every business that only posts on social media has been found.

The snapshot only includes what a producer, a shop or a menu calls granola. Ordinary muesli, cereal bars, home recipes and nut products were left out.

What it found

These figures describe the snapshot as it was on 28 October 2026. They are counts of research notes, not of what is on sale today, and they don’t change as the site grows:

• 40 brand and house-granola profiles, one of them for a brand found only as unavailable listings.
• 136 recipe and menu records: 129 current, and 7 historical, unavailable or uncertain.
• 64 businesses: producers, shops, chains, distributors, cafés and a guesthouse. A chain counts once, however many branches it has.
• 17 records with no recovered ingredient list, and 54 with no numeric nutrition panel, whether because the source doesn’t publish one or because it couldn’t be read.

Alongside those profiles, the snapshot kept a list of leads it couldn’t confirm: brands with no current product found, listings for a different country, a supplier of granola ingredients that may not sell finished granola. They stay out of the catalogue until a source settles them.

What this edition publishes

The snapshot is a set of research notes, not a set of published facts. Before anything appears on Granola.cat, every source is fetched again, read again and recorded with the date we checked it. For this first edition we did that for five brands, chosen because each tests a distinction the site has to get right:

• Sa Granola, a workshop that is both brand and maker, with a long list of shops that stock the brand but not a particular recipe.
• CIVIA, a brand whose terms of sale name a company with a different legal name.
• Casa Bernat, a guesthouse whose granola is only for staying guests.
• Caravelle, a café that serves its granola in a dish.
• Veritas, a supermarket chain’s own label, sold through a catalogue rather than confirmed on a particular shop’s shelf.

With them come the businesses their sources name, and guides to Catalonia and its four provinces. The panel on this page counts what the site publishes as it stands today, from the published records themselves.

Fetching the sources again changed some of what the snapshot said. The snapshot had read CIVIA’s nutrition panels as figures per 100 grams; the pages themselves don’t say so, so those panels now stay out of comparisons until a pack confirms the basis. That is the reason for checking again rather than copying the notes across.

Where the gaps are

Geography is uneven. Most premises are in and around Barcelona, because the largest single source is one brand’s own stockist list. Girona has a handful of leads, Lleida two very different ones, and Tarragona only a supermarket chain’s presence so far. A town missing from a guide is a town the research hasn’t reached, not a town without granola.

A listing isn’t stock. No shop was phoned or visited, and nothing was bought. Stockist lists, catalogues and menus show where a brand or a granola may be found; they don’t confirm what’s on a shelf today.

Labels are incomplete. Many sources don’t publish ingredients, allergens or nutrition in full, and many nutrition panels don’t state their measurement basis. Missing information stays unknown, and only panels on the same verified basis are ever compared.

Ingredient origin is rarely disclosed. A Catalan brand doesn’t mean Catalan oats, nuts or fruit, and we don’t assume it does.

What comes next

The other brands and businesses in the snapshot will be published in batches, each checked against its sources in the same way. When a source changes, the record changes with it and shows the new checked date. If you know of a granola, a maker or a shop we haven’t found, or of something that has changed, the methodology page explains how to tell us.