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Is Fibre 1 Oats & Chocolate ultra-processed?

1.26 kg Breakfast cereals Sold in Canada

Pack of Fibre 1 Oats & Chocolate

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:

  • 33 ingredients
  • 7 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed breakfast cereals

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

Sugars (high maltose corn syrup, sugar, corn syrup, maltodextrin, fructose, barley malt extract), Chicory root (inulin fibre), rolled oats, Chocolate chips (sugar, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, soy lecithin, natural flavour), Rice flour, barley flakes, Glycerin, Canola oil, Palm kernel oil, Tricalcium phosphate, Soy lecithin, Cocoa powder, Salt, peanut oil, Caramel colour, Baking soda, milk ingredient, Natural flavour, Tocopherols, Rosemary extract, Monoglycerides

Additives: E150c Ammonia caramel , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E392 Extracts of rosemary , E422 Glycerol , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E150c Ammonia caramel.

As written on the pack

Sugars (high maltose corn syrup, sugar, corn syrup, maltodextrin, fructose, barley malt extract), Chicory root extract (inulin fibre), Whole grain rolled oats, Chocolate chips (sugar, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, soy lecithin, natural flavour), Rice flour, Whole grain barley flakes, Glycerin, Canola oil, Palm kernel oil, Tricalcium phosphate, Soy lecithin, Cocoa powder, Salt, Refined peanut oil, Caramel colour, Baking soda, Modified milk ingredient, Natural flavour, Tocopherols, Rosemary extract, Monoglycerides. Contains: Soy, Milk, Oat, Barley. May contain: Peanut, Wheat, Almond.

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.

  • E150c Ammonia caramel Ammonia caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars with ammonia compounds.
  • E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.
  • E422 Glycerol Glycerol is a sweet-tasting liquid used to keep products moist and soft.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

Substances rarely used in home kitchens

Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
  • Milk An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
4 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.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,869 breakfast cereals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1838th. 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 1,869 breakfast cereals, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0065633225534, last edited 23 April 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.