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Is Kashi GO original ultra-processed?

12.3 oz Breakfast cereals rich in fibre Sold in the United States

Pack of Kashi GO original

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:

  • 25 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed breakfast cereals rich in fibre

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

Puffed blend (hard red wheat, triticale grain, brown rice, rye), soy protein, degerminated yellow corn flour, cane sugar, degerminated yellow corn meal, oat fiber, wheat bran, soy flour, corn bran, honey, seven flour (oats, hard red wheat, rye, brown rice, triticale grain, barley, buckwheat), salt, natural flavors, annatto

As written on the pack

Puffed whole grains blend (hard red wheat, triticale grain, brown rice, rye), soy protein concentrate, degerminated yellow corn flour, cane sugar, degerminated yellow corn meal, oat fiber, wheat bran, soy flour, corn bran, honey, seven whole grains flour (oats, hard red wheat, rye, brown rice, triticale grain, barley, buckwheat), salt, natural flavors, annatto extract.

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.

  • 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.

  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
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 52 breakfast cereals rich in fibre

From least to most processed, this one ranks 32nd. 69% of the breakfast cereals rich in fibre 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 52 breakfast cereals rich in fibre, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0018627115717, last edited 2 July 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.