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Is Quaker Peanut Butter Flavour Hot Oat Cereal with Soy Protein ultra-processed?

58g Porridge Sold in the United Kingdom and the United States

Pack of Quaker Peanut Butter Flavour Hot Oat Cereal with Soy Protein

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:

  • 11 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed porridge

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

Quaker Rolled Oats 67%, Skimmed Milk Powder, Soy Protein 9%, Sugar, Salt, Natural Flavourings, Emulsifier (Soy Lecithin), Anticaking Agent (Calcium Phosphate), For BEST BEFORE see base of pot

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin

As written on the pack

Quaker Rolled Oats (67%), Skimmed Milk Powder, Soy Protein (9%), Sugar, Salt, Natural Flavourings, Emulsifier (Soy Lecithin), Anticaking Agent (Calcium Phosphate). ALLERGY ADVICE: For allergens, see ingredients in bold. May contain wheat, barley. For BEST BEFORE see base of pot.

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.
  • Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
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.

  • Anti-caking agent Anti-caking agents are substances which reduce the tendency of individual particles of a foodstuff to adhere to one another.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 160 porridge

From least to most processed, this one ranks 151st. 57% of the porridge 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 160 porridge, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000108033677, last edited 28 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.