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Is Cap'n Crunch Cereal ultra-processed?

350g Breakfast cereals Sold in Canada

Pack of Cap'n Crunch Cereal

Yes, it's ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 19 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

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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

Corn flour, Sugars (sugar, blackstrap molasses), Oat flour, Coconut oil, modified palm oil, Salt, Tocopherols, Tartrazine, Sunset yellow FCF, Iron, Niacinamide, Thiamine mononitrate (vitamin B₁), Calcium pantothenate, Pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), Folic acid

Additives: E102 Tartrazine , E110 Sunset yellow FCF , E306 Tocopherol-rich extract

As written on the pack

Corn flour, Sugars (sugar, blackstrap molasses), Oat flour, Coconut oil and/or modified palm oil, Salt, Tocopherols, Tartrazine, Sunset yellow FCF, Iron, Niacinamide, Thiamine mononitrate (vitamin B₁), Calcium pantothenate, Pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), Folic acid.

What makes it ultra-processed

Cosmetic additives

Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • E102 Tartrazine Tartrazine is a synthetic yellow azo dye (FD&C Yellow No. 5 in the US).
  • E110 Sunset yellow FCF Sunset yellow FCF is a synthetic orange azo dye (FD&C Yellow No. 6 in the US).
3 ingredients that would only make it processed

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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,868 breakfast cereals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1417th. 60% of the breakfast cereals 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 1,868 breakfast cereals, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0055577106662, last edited 14 March 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.
  • NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.