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Is Honey Bunches of Oats Honey Roasted Cereal with Granola ultra-processed?

12 oz Breakfast cereals Sold in the United States

Pack of Honey Bunches of Oats Honey Roasted Cereal with Granola

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:

  • 36 ingredients
  • 2 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

opost consumer brands, llc 6% 6% 10% ingredients (corn), wheat, sugar, rolled oats, rice, canola and soybean cil, wheat flour, malted barley flour, corn syrup, salt, molasses, honey, caramel color, barley malt extract, natural and artificial flavor, annatto (color), bht added to preserve freshness, vitamins, minerals (reduced iron), niacinamide (vitamin b3), vitamin a palmitate, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin b6), zinc oxide, thiamin mononitrate (vitamin b1), riboflavin, folic acid, vitamins, vitamin d3, vitamin b12

Additives: E150c Ammonia caramel , E321 Butylated hydroxytoluene

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

As written on the pack

opost consumer brands, llc 6% 6% 10% ingredients: corn, whole grain wheat, sugar, whole grain rolled oats, rice, canola and/or soybean cil, wheat flour, malted barley flour, corn syrup, salt, molasses, honey, caramel color, barley malt extract, natural and artificial flavor, annatto extract (color), bht added to preserve freshness, vitamins and minerals: reduced iron, niacinamide (vitamin b3), vitamin a palmitate, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin b6), zinc oxide, thiamin mononitrate (vitamin b1), riboflavin (vitamin b2), folic acid, vitamin d3, vitamin b12, contains wheat,

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.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • 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.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
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.

  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,869 breakfast cereals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1669th. 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 0884912359155, last edited 17 September 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.