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Is Quaker porridge to go strawberry raspberry cranberry ultra-processed?

2 bars 55g each Cereal bars Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Quaker porridge to go strawberry raspberry cranberry

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:

  • 42 ingredients
  • 10 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed cereal bars

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

rolled oat 34%, oat flour 16%, Oligofructose, Sunflower oil, Cereal crisps (Rice flour, Oat flour, Sugar, Calcium carbonate, Barley malt extract), Golden syrup, Glycerol, Brown sugar, Modified starch, Strawberry 1.8% (Strawberry puree, Fructose glucose syrup, Glucose syrup, Sugar, Wheat fibre, RSPO Palm fat, Rice starch, pectin, malic acid, citric acid, Carrot, pumpkin, Flavourings), Cranberry 1.8% (Cranberries, Pineapple syrup, juice, Rice flour), Almond flour, Skimmed milk powder, Salt, Emulsiher (Soy lecithin), Tocopherol rich extract, Sodium bicarbonate, Calcium carbonate, Natural berry flavouring with other natural flavourings

Additives: E14XX Modified Starch , E296 Malic acid , E306 Tocopherol-rich extract , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E330 Citric acid , E422 Glycerol , E440 Pectins , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Wholegrain rolled oat flakes (34%), Wholegrain oat flour (16%), Oligofructose, Sunflower oil, Cereal crisps (Rice flour, Oat flour, Sugar, Calcium carbonate, Barley malt extract), Golden syrup, Humectant (Glycerol), Brown sugar, Modified starch, Strawberry pieces (1.8%) (Strawberry puree, Fructose glucose syrup, Glucose syrup, Sugar, Wheat fibre, RSPO Palm fat, Rice starch, Gelling agent (pectin), Acidity regulators (malic acid, citric acid), Carrot and pumpkin concentrates, Flavourings), Cranberry pieces (1.8%) (Cranberries, Pineapple syrup and juice concentrate, Rice flour), Almond flour, Skimmed milk powder, Salt, Emulsiher (Soy lecithin), Antioxidant (Tocopherol rich extract), Raising agent (Sodium bicarbonate), Calcium carbonate, Natural berry flavouring with other natural flavourings. Allergy Advice: For allergens, see ingredients in bold. May contain other nuts and peanut.

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.

  • E14xx Modified Starch Modified starches (E1400 to E1452) are starches treated physically, with enzymes or chemically so that they thicken and hold up to heating, freezing or acidity better than ordinary starch.
  • 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.
  • E422 Glycerol Glycerol is a sweet-tasting liquid used to keep products moist and soft.
  • E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
  • 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.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
  • 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.
6 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.
  • Sweet snacks Products in the category "Sweet snacks" are at least group 3.
  • 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 488 cereal bars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 448th. 91% of the cereal bars 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 488 cereal bars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000108033226, last edited 27 August 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.