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Honey Nut Sweetened Whole Grain Oat Cereal With Real Honey

by Honey Nut Scooters

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0042400188995 · Honey Nut Scooters. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0042400188995 · Serving size 1 1.25 cups (41 g)

The verdict

Honey Nut Sweetened Whole Grain Oat Cereal With Real Honey by Honey Nut Scooters scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 27 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The 27-component label is layered, beginning with Whole Grain Oat Flour, Includes The Oat Bran, Sugar. 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 27 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.

00188995 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Honey Nut Sweetened Whole Grain Oat Cereal With Real Honey label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 95/100 FLAG-ONE 1 flagged LEN-LAYERED 27 ing. REG-PART 52% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-D Nutri-D RANK-SHORT Len top 18% LEAD-FLAG Caramel Coloring PHOTO-FINISH Cereal · ±0 BOOK-OFF …188995 · July 2026

14 of 27 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 00188995 · 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: Cereal · Nearest score peer is Cereal 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. Honey Nut Sweetened Whole Grain Oat Cereal With Real Honey: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Honey Nut Sweetened Whole…95/1002. Cereal: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Cereal95/1003. Sweetened Naturally & Artificially Chocolate Flavored Rice Cereal With Real Cocoa: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Sweetened Naturally & Art…95/1004. Sweetened rice cereal with real cocoa: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Sweetened rice cereal wit…95/1005. Sweetened Naturally & Artificially Chocolate Flavored Rice Cereal With Real Cocoa: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Sweetened Naturally & Art…95/100
High-band neighbours for Honey Nut Sweetened Whole Grain Oat Cereal With Real Honey (95/100) outside Honey Nut Scooters.
Chart values as text

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

Honey Nut Sweetened Whole Grain Oat Cereal With Real Honey
95/100
Cereal
95/100
Sweetened Naturally & Artificially Chocolate Flavored Rice Cereal With Real Cocoa
95/100
Sweetened rice cereal with real cocoa
95/100
Sweetened Naturally & Artificially Chocolate Flavored Rice Cereal With Real Cocoa
95/100

Ingredient-list length vs every product we publish

Honey Nut Sweetened Whole Grain Oat Cereal With Real Honey lists 27 ingredients on its label

27 82nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 82% of the 359,392 products we track

0–2: 6,050 products (2%). Below this entry. 2–4: 24,522 products (7%). Below this entry. 4–6: 31,054 products (9%). Below this entry. 6–8: 30,981 products (9%). Below this entry. 8–10: 31,618 products (9%). Below this entry. 10–12: 29,943 products (8%). Below this entry. 12–14: 28,403 products (8%). Below this entry. 14–16: 27,417 products (8%). Below this entry. 16–18: 24,508 products (7%). Below this entry. 18–20: 19,062 products (5%). Below this entry. 20–22: 14,679 products (4%). Below this entry. 22–24: 12,238 products (3%). Below this entry. 24–26: 10,830 products (3%). Below this entry. 26–28: 9,344 products (3%). This entry sits in this band. 28–30: 7,955 products (2%). Above this entry. 30–32: 6,753 products (2%). Above this entry. 32–34: 5,918 products (2%). Above this entry. 34–36: 5,282 products (1%). Above this entry. 36–38: 4,531 products (1%). Above this entry. 38–40: 4,063 products (1%). Above this entry. 40–42: 24,241 products (7%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published product, bucketed by value

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Distribution as text

359,392 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 27 (82nd percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
6,050 products (2%)
2–4
24,522 products (7%)
4–6
31,054 products (9%)
6–8
30,981 products (9%)
8–10
31,618 products (9%)
10–12
29,943 products (8%)
12–14
28,403 products (8%)
14–16
27,417 products (8%)
16–18
24,508 products (7%)
18–20
19,062 products (5%)
20–22
14,679 products (4%)
22–24
12,238 products (3%)
24–26
10,830 products (3%)
26–28
9,344 products (3%)
28–30
7,955 products (2%)
30–32
6,753 products (2%)
32–34
5,918 products (2%)
34–36
5,282 products (1%)
36–38
4,531 products (1%)
38–40
4,063 products (1%)
40 and above
24,241 products (7%)

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. No category with enough published products was available for this record, so the comparison runs against the whole published catalogue.

Ingredient Safety Analysis

How the 95/100 score is built

Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 27 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

Full Ingredient List

WHOLE GRAIN OAT FLOUR (INCLUDES THE OAT BRAN), SUGAR, WHEAT STARCH, HONEY,SALT, BROWN SUGAR SYRUP, TRISODIUM PHOSPHATE, CARAMEL COLOR, NATURAL FLAVOR. VITAMINS & MINERALS: VITAMIN B1 (THIAMIN MONONITRATE), VITAMIN B2 (RIBOFLAVIN), NIACIN (NIACINAMIDE), VITAMIN B6 (PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE), FOLIC ACID, VITAMIN B12, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, VITAMIN C (SODIUM ASCORBATE), VITAMIN D, REDUCED IRON, ZINC (ZINC OXIDE), CALCIUM CARBONATE.

High-score cross-brand comparables for Honey Nut Sweetened Whole Grain Oat Cereal With Real Honey

Neighbours outside Honey Nut Scooters with screening scores in the same high band as Honey Nut Sweetened Whole Grain Oat Cereal With Real Honey (95/100 here). The 4 same-brand links above stay within Honey Nut Scooters; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from Honey Nut Sweetened Whole Grain Oat Cereal With Real Honey's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 27-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
  • Compare Honey Nut Sweetened Whole Grain Oat Cereal With Real Honey'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 0042400188995: 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.