Is 365 Whole Foods Market Organic Crunchy Cinnamon Squares ultra-processed?

Cereals and their products Sold in the United States

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Preservative
Salt
Sugar

10 ingredients
1 additive

Less processed cereals and their products

Sprouted Rolled Oats One Degree Organic Foods 1 ingredient · no additives NOVA group 1
Old Fashioned Oats Quaker Oats 1 ingredient · no additives NOVA group 1
Quick 1-Minute Oats Quaker Oats 1 ingredient · no additives NOVA group 1
Old Fashioned 100% Whole Grain Rolled Oats Quaker Oats 1 ingredient · no additives NOVA group 1

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

whole wheat flour, cane sugar (processing marker), brown rice flour, oat hull fiber, calcium carbonate, sea salt (processing marker), cinnamon, mixed tocopherols (vitamin e), added to maintain freshness (processing marker)

Additives: E306 Tocopherol-rich extract

As written on the pack

Organic whole wheat flour, organic cane sugar, organic whole grain brown rice flour, organic oat hull fiber, calcium carbonate, sea salt, organic cinnamon, mixed tocopherols (vitamin e) added to maintain freshness.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

Preservation and traditional processing

Keep food safe or ferment it, like preservatives and cultures. A sign of processing, not ultra-processing.

Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 5,078 cereals and their products

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1956th. 57% of the cereals and their products here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 5,078 cereals and their products, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0099482448646, last edited 28 May 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.