Safe

Easy Living Cereal, Crispy Oat Squares, Cinnamon

by Food Lion

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0035826105974 · Food Lion · Plant-based foods and beverages. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0035826105974 · Serving size 1 cup (42 g)

The verdict

Easy Living Cereal, Crispy Oat Squares, Cinnamon by Food Lion scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 24 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The 24-component label is layered, beginning with Whole Grain Oats, Sugar, Corn Flour. Start with any flagged rows, then check the nutrition grade and serving size instead of treating one roll-up score as the whole decision. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.

95/100
Safe safety score
1
One flagged · of 24 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
D
Nutri-Score nutrition grade

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

60/100

Grade C+

Ingredient Safety

95/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

D

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.

26105974 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Easy Living Cereal, Crispy Oat Squares, Cinnamon label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 95/100 FLAG-ONE 1 flagged LEN-LAYERED 24 ing. REG-PART 33% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-D Nutri-D RANK-SHORT Len top 17% LEAD-FLAG Caramel Coloring PHOTO-FINISH Smooth Flavor Dr. · ±0 BOOK-OFF …105974 · July 2026

8 of 24 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 26105974 · 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: Smooth Flavor Dr. Perky Soda · Nearest score peer is Smooth Flavor Dr. Perky Soda 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.

This label falls in the fourth Nutri-Score band. The model arrives there when its penalty terms — energy density, sugars, saturated fat, sodium — carry more weight in the calculation than the fibre, protein and produce content it credits. The band covers a wide span of the points scale, so position within it is not visible from the letter alone. The grade reflects the declared nutrition panel and is unrelated to the additive ratings listed below, which come from different bodies applying different criteria.

This label parsed into a long component list. Where many entries are screened at once, the composite tends to reflect the overall mix of registry ratings returned rather than the rating of any one entry. Longer declarations also carry more sub-listed and compound entries, where a parenthetical group is resolved into its parts, so the parsed count can exceed what a reader counts on the packaging.

Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood

1. Easy Living Cereal, Crispy Oat Squares, Cinnamon: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Easy Living Cereal, Crisp…95/1002. Smooth Flavor Dr. Perky Soda: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Smooth Flavor Dr. Perky S…95/1003. Steak Cut French Fried Potatoes: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Steak Cut French Fried Po…95/1004. Soda: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Soda95/1005. Crispy Thin Crust Pizza: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Crispy Thin Crust Pizza95/100
High-band neighbours for Easy Living Cereal, Crispy Oat Squares, Cinnamon (95/100) outside Food Lion.
Chart values as text

Unit: PlainFoodSafe screening score out of 100. Data current as of July 2026.

Easy Living Cereal, Crispy Oat Squares, Cinnamon
95/100
Smooth Flavor Dr. Perky Soda
95/100
Steak Cut French Fried Potatoes
95/100
Soda
95/100
Crispy Thin Crust Pizza
95/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 78,450 products we've scored in the Plant-based foods and beverages category, the average safety score is 97.7/100. Easy Living Cereal, Crispy Oat Squares, Cinnamon scores 2.7 points below that category average (95/100 vs. 97.7/100), 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 Plant-based foods and beverages products

Easy Living Cereal, Crispy Oat Squares, Cinnamon lists 24 ingredients on its label

24 83rd percentile a longer ingredient list than 83% of the 63,434 products we track

0–2: 3,907 products (6%). Below this entry. 2–4: 7,921 products (12%). Below this entry. 4–6: 8,845 products (14%). Below this entry. 6–8: 7,032 products (11%). Below this entry. 8–10: 6,320 products (10%). Below this entry. 10–12: 4,190 products (7%). Below this entry. 12–14: 3,449 products (5%). Below this entry. 14–16: 3,051 products (5%). Below this entry. 16–18: 2,493 products (4%). Below this entry. 18–20: 2,053 products (3%). Below this entry. 20–22: 1,808 products (3%). Below this entry. 22–24: 1,758 products (3%). Below this entry. 24–26: 1,623 products (3%). This entry sits in this band. 26–28: 1,606 products (3%). Above this entry. 28–30: 1,360 products (2%). Above this entry. 30–32: 1,198 products (2%). Above this entry. 32–34: 1,081 products (2%). Above this entry. 34–36: 901 products (1%). Above this entry. 36–38: 649 products (1%). Above this entry. 38–40: 534 products (1%). Above this entry. 40–42: 1,655 products (3%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Plant-based foods and beverages product, bucketed by value

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Distribution as text

63,434 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 24 (83rd percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
3,907 products (6%)
2–4
7,921 products (12%)
4–6
8,845 products (14%)
6–8
7,032 products (11%)
8–10
6,320 products (10%)
10–12
4,190 products (7%)
12–14
3,449 products (5%)
14–16
3,051 products (5%)
16–18
2,493 products (4%)
18–20
2,053 products (3%)
20–22
1,808 products (3%)
22–24
1,758 products (3%)
24–26
1,623 products (3%)
26–28
1,606 products (3%)
28–30
1,360 products (2%)
30–32
1,198 products (2%)
32–34
1,081 products (2%)
34–36
901 products (1%)
36–38
649 products (1%)
38–40
534 products (1%)
40 and above
1,655 products (3%)

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 63,434 Plant-based foods and beverages products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.

Full Ingredient List

Whole grain oats, sugar, corn flour, whole grain wheat, rice flour, salt, calcium carbonate, trisodium phosphate, color added (caramel color, paprika oleoresin and turmeric oleoresin), cinnamon, natural flavor, freshness preserved with vitamin e (mixed tocopherols). vitamins and minerals: reduced iron, niacinamide (vitamin b3), zinc oxide, thiamin mononitrate (vitamin b1), pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin b6), folic acid.

Other products containing Paprika Oleoresin And Turmeric Oleoresin

Paprika Oleoresin And Turmeric Oleoresin is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 14 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.

Categories

Plant-based foods and beverages Plant-based foods Breakfasts Cereals and potatoes Cereals and their products Breakfast cereals

High-score cross-brand comparables for Easy Living Cereal, Crispy Oat Squares, Cinnamon

Neighbours outside Food Lion with screening scores in the same high band as Easy Living Cereal, Crispy Oat Squares, Cinnamon (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Food Lion; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from Easy Living Cereal, Crispy Oat Squares, Cinnamon's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 24-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
  • Compare Easy Living Cereal, Crispy Oat Squares, Cinnamon's 1 flagged ingredients with a product from the same score neighbourhood. Compare labels
  • Check how caution flags contribute to the derived screening score before drawing a dietary conclusion. Read the method

This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.

Barcode 0035826105974: 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.