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Is Quaker Yogourt ultra-processed?

Cereal bars Sold in Canada

Pack of Quaker Yogourt

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:

  • 49 ingredients
  • 9 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

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

Granola (rolled oats, whole wheat, sugar, vegetable oil, molasses, coconut, honey blend, baking soda, natural flavour, milk ingredients), Sugars (glucose, sugar, brown sugar, glucose), Yogourt coating (sugar, palm kernel oil, milk ingredients, yogourt powder, modified palm oil, soy lecithin, natural flavour, salt, citric acid), brown rice crisps (brown rice flour, sugar, barley malt, salt, tocopherols), Glycerin, Shortening (canola oil, palm, palm kernel oil), milk ingredients, strawberry (glucose syrup, strawberries, fructose, modified potato starch, sodium alginate), Sorbitol, Salt, Soy lecithin, Tocopherols, Natural flavour

Additives: E306 Tocopherol-rich extract , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E330 Citric acid , E401 Sodium alginate , E420 Sorbitol , E422 Glycerol , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Granola (rolled oats, rolled whole wheat, sugar, vegetable oil, molasses, dried coconut, honey blend, baking soda, natural flavour, modified milk ingredients), Sugars (glucose, sugar, brown sugar, glucose solids), Yogourt coating (sugar, modified palm kernel oil, modified milk ingredients, yogourt powder, modified palm oil, soy lecithin, natural flavour, salt, citric acid), Whole grain brown rice crisps (whole grain brown rice flour, sugar, barley malt, salt, tocopherols), Glycerin, Shortening (canola oil, modified palm and palm kernel oil), Modified milk ingredients, Freeze-dried strawberry granules (glucose syrup, strawberries, fructose, modified potato starch, sodium alginate), Sorbitol, Salt, Soy lecithin, Tocopherols, Natural flavour

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.
  • E401 Sodium alginate A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
  • E420 Sorbitol Sorbitol is a sugar alcohol used as a sweetener and to keep products moist.
  • E422 Glycerol Glycerol is a sweet-tasting liquid used to keep products moist and soft.
  • 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.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
  • Milk An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
  • Palm kernel oil An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
  • Palm fat An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
5 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 487 cereal bars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 462nd. 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 487 cereal bars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0055577312247, last edited 12 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.