Cerelac Wheat Cereal with Milk
by Nestlé
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0028000149727 · Nestlé · Baby foods. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Cerelac Wheat Cereal with Milk by Nestlé scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 50 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 50-component record, beginning with Wheat Flour, Fat Free, Milk. That density can include amounts and label fragments, so verify the physical label before relying on ingredient order or completeness. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- None flagged · of 50 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0028000149727
- Barcode (UPC/EAN)
Computed directly from OpenFoodFacts ingredient data cross-referenced with FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings. See our methodology for the scoring formula.
Composite profile score
One verdict from three independent sources
70/100
Grade B
Ingredient Safety
100/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
N/A
Nutri-Score front-of-pack nutrition grade
Weighted 50% ingredient safety / 25% processing level / 25% nutrition grade. A dimension with no data for this product (common: source coverage is partial) is dropped and its weight redistributes across the remaining dimensions, so missing data never silently lowers the score. See the full benchmark table.
00149727 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Cerelac Wheat Cereal with Milk label screening desk
13 of 50 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Vitamin K). Source sheet 00149727 · Open Food Facts · July 2026. The screening score and flag counts are in the verdict band above. This desk is the provenance stamp, not a second scorecard. Methodology · Read with nearest score peer: Pringles, potato crisps, original, original · Nearest score peer is Pringles, potato crisps, original, original at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
Within the four-tier shelf-label framework this site publishes, the composite for this product falls in the highest band. That band is defined by a threshold on the derived score alone: it is where labels land once components carrying caution-or-worse registry ratings contribute little or nothing to the deduction. The band is a summary of what the screened registries return for the components that were parsed, so it inherits their coverage gaps — a component absent from both registries neither raises nor lowers the figure. The threshold and the weighting behind it are set out on the methodology page.
Nutri-Score is not defined for this product's category. The model excludes certain categories by design — among them plain waters, herbs, teas and coffees, and some single-ingredient products — rather than attempting a grade and failing. No nutritional band therefore accompanies the additive screen on this page, and its absence is a property of the category rather than a finding about this particular label. The registry screen below is unaffected by the exclusion and covers additive ratings as normal.
The declared list is among the longer ones in this catalogue. A component set this wide means the screen returns many individual ratings, and the composite accumulates a large number of small contributions instead of turning on a handful of entries. At this length the per-component table below is substantially more informative than the single figure, because the figure compresses a great deal of variation into one number.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 991 products we've scored in the Baby foods category, the average safety score is 99.8/100. Cerelac Wheat Cereal with Milk scores 0.2 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 99.8/100), so it is roughly typical for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Baby foods products
Cerelac Wheat Cereal with Milk lists 50 ingredients on its label
50 93rd percentile a longer ingredient list than 93% of the 894 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 1 products (0%)
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- 106 products (12%)
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- 6 products (1%)
- 40 and above
- 109 products (12%)
Source Open Food Facts, product label ingredient lists · July 2026
Ingredient-list length is a descriptive property of the label, not a safety rating. A longer list is not automatically worse and a shorter one is not automatically better; the count is shown so the label can be placed against a comparable population. The comparison here runs against the 894 Baby foods products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
Full Ingredient List
WHEAT FLOUR, FAT FREE, MILK, SUGAR, MILK FAT, CANOLA OIL, HIGH, OLEIC SUNFLOWER OIL, SUNFLOWER OIL, AND LESS THAN 1% OF: CALCIUM, CARBONATE, POTASSIUM PHOSPHATE,, VITAMIN C (ASCORBIC ACID), IRON, (FERROUS FUMARATE), VANILLIN (ARTIFICIAL, FLAVOR), VITAMIN E (ALPHA TOCOPHERYL, ACETATE), ZINC SULPHATE, VITAMIN B5, (CALCIUM PANTOTHENATE), B. LACTIS, CULTURES, NIACINAMIDE, ASCORBYL, PALMITATE, COPPER SULFATE, VITAMIN B1, (THIAMIN MONONITRATE), VITAMIN A, ACETATE, VITAMIN B6 (PYRIDOXINE HYDRO-, CHLORIDE), VITAMIN B2 (RIBOFLAVIN),, FOLIC ACID, POTASSIUM IODIDE, VITAMIN K, (PHYLLOQUINONE), BIOTIN, VITAMIN D3, (CHOLECALCIFEROL), VITAMIN B12 (CYANO-, COBOLAMINE). CONTAINS: WHEAT, MILK.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Cerelac Wheat Cereal with Milk
Neighbours outside Nestlé with screening scores in the same high band as Cerelac Wheat Cereal with Milk (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Nestlé; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (100/100 here, no caution flags on the parsed list).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (50 on 0028000149727).
Read the longer label in layers
Read the longer label in layers
Cerelac Wheat Cereal with Milk has a longer ingredient list than 93% of its Baby foods category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.
- Open Vitamin K first, then work through the remaining 50 parsed entries. Inspect ingredients
- Compare this longer label with a cross-brand product of similar list depth. Compare label depth
- Use the methodology to separate a derived screening score from dietary or medical advice. Read the boundary
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0028000149727: product data from Open Food Facts (July 2026). Screening from FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine where attached. Figures are computed from those sources, not editor-typed. Methodology. Reference only, not dietary or medical advice.