Is Nature's Path Foods Mesa Sunrise Cereal, Organic ultra-processed?

750 g Breakfast cereals Sold in the United States, Canada and France

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Salt
Sugar

14 ingredients
1 additive
Nutri-Score C

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

Corn meal, yellow corn flour, Cane sugar (processing marker), Flax seeds, Buckwheat flour, Quinoa, Amaranth, Sea salt (processing marker), Tocopherols (added to enhance freshness), _May contain (Tree nuts), Peanuts, Soy._

Additives: E306 Tocopherol-rich extract

As written on the pack

Corn meal* and/or yellow corn flour*, Cane sugar*, Flax seeds*, Buckwheat flour*, Quinoa, Amaranth*, Sea salt, Tocopherols (added to enhance freshness). *Organic. May contain: Tree nuts, Peanuts, Soy. (VEGAN)

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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,869 breakfast cereals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 688th. 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 0058449779018, 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.