Is Quaker Instant Oatmeal Dino Eggs Brown Sugar ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 21 ingredients
- 4 additives
- Nutri-Score D
Less processed breakfast cereals
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
rolled oats, sugar (processing marker), dinosaur egg shaped pieces (sugar (processing marker), dextrose (ultra-processing marker), hydrogenated palm oil (ultra-processing marker), vegetable oil (processing marker) (palm kernel oil, palm oil), magnesium stearate, modified corn starch (ultra-processing marker), sunflower lecithin (ultra-processing marker), confectioner's glaze, carnauba wax (ultra-processing marker), colour (ultra-processing marker), spirulina extract, natural flavour (ultra-processing marker)), salt (processing marker), natural flavours (ultra-processing marker), ingredients, consumer relations
Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E572 Magnesium stearate , E903 Carnauba wax
As written on the pack
whole grain rolled oats, sugar, dinosaur egg shaped pieces (sugar, dextrose, hydrogenated palm oil, vegetable oil [palm kernel oil, palm oil], magnesium stearate, modified corn starch, sunflower lecithin, confectioner's glaze, carnauba wax, colour, spirulina extract, natural flavour), salt, natural flavours. contains oat ingredients. may contain wheat. consumer relations
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.
- 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.
- E903 Carnauba wax Carnauba wax comes from the leaves of a Brazilian palm and gives sweets and coated chocolates their shine.
- 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.
- Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.
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.
- Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
- Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
- Hydrogenated oil Hydrogenation turns liquid oil into a solid fat that resists going rancid.
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.
- Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
Among 1,869 breakfast cereals
From least to most processed, this one ranks 1845th. 60% of the breakfast cereals here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0055577103661, last edited 7 June 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.