Is Sanitarium So Good High Protein Oat ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 20 ingredients
- 2 additives
- Nutri-Score C
Less processed milks
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Filtered water, oat flour 9%, soy protein 4%, vegetable oils (processing marker) (sunflower, canola), minerals (calcium, phosphorus), natural flavours (ultra-processing marker), vegetable gum (gellan (ultra-processing marker)), ascorbic acid, vitamins, vitamin B12, vitamin A, vitamin B2, vitamin B1, vitamin D, monk fruit extract (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E300 Ascorbic acid , E418 Gellan gum
As written on the pack
Filtered water, oat flour (9%), soy protein (4%), vegetable oils (sunflower, canola), minerals (calcium, phosphorus), natural flavours, vegetable gum (gellan), antioxidant (ascorbic acid), vitamins (B12, A, B2, B1, D), monk fruit extract
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.
- E418 Gellan gum Stabilisers are substances which make it possible to maintain the physico-chemical state of a foodstuff; stabilisers include substances which enable the maintenance of a homogenous dispersion of two or more immiscible substances in a foodstuff, substances which stabilise, retain or intensify an existing colour of a foodstuff and substances which increase the binding capacity of the food, including the formation of cross-links between proteins enabling the binding of food pieces into re-constituted food.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
- Sweetener Sweeteners give sweetness with few or no calories, many at hundreds of times the strength of sugar.
1 ingredient that would only make it processed
Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
Among 440 milks
From least to most processed, this one ranks 380th. 24% of the milks here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 9300652815573, last edited 12 September 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.