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Is Quaker Mighty Life Very Vanilla ultra-processed?

370 g Breakfast cereals Sold in the United States

Pack of Quaker Mighty Life Very Vanilla

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:

  • 18 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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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

oat flour, corn flour, sugar, whole wheat flour, calcium carbonate, natural flavor, salt, baking soda, tocopherols, reduced iron, niacinamide, annatto, cholecalciferol, thiamine mononitrate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, riboflavin, folic acid, ingredients

Additives: E160b Annatto , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Whole grain oat flour, corn flour, sugar, whole wheat flour, calcium carbonate, natural flavor, salt, baking soda, tocopherols, reduced iron, niacinamide, annatto, cholecalciferol, thiamine mononitrate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, riboflavin, folic acid. CONTAINS WHEAT INGREDIENTS.

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.

  • E160b Annatto Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
2 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,869 breakfast cereals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1417th. 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 0030000578018, last edited 4 March 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.