Fruit & Cream Variety Pack Instant Oatmeal
by Great Value
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0078742035512 · Great Value · Plant-based foods and beverages. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Fruit & Cream Variety Pack Instant Oatmeal by Great Value scores 35/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 63 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 3 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 63-component record, beginning with Strawberries, Whole Grain Rolled Oats, Sugar. 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.
- 35/100
- Avoid safety score
- 3
- Few flagged · of 63 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0078742035512
- 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
27/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
35/100
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.
42035512 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Fruit & Cream Variety Pack Instant Oatmeal label screening desk
21 of 63 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Blue 2). Source sheet 42035512 · 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: Daily chef, sliced bagels, blueberry · Nearest score peer is Daily chef, sliced bagels, blueberry at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
The composite for this product falls in the lowest of the four bands. That is where labels land when registry-rated components drive the greater part of the deduction from the index. The band name is drawn from the framework's own scale and is distinct from the ratings the registries themselves assign to individual substances, which are shown per component below. A single heavily rated component and several lightly rated ones can produce the same band, so the component table is the more precise reading of the two.
No Nutri-Score grade is present for this record in the OpenFoodFacts snapshot this page is built from. The nutritional dimension is absent rather than assessed and withheld: the grade depends on a complete declared nutrition panel, and community-contributed records vary in how much of that panel they carry. Nothing about the missing grade implies anything either way about the panel itself. The screen below covers additive ratings only and does not depend on the nutrition figures.
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 78,450 products we've scored in the Plant-based foods and beverages category, the average safety score is 97.7/100. Fruit & Cream Variety Pack Instant Oatmeal scores 62.7 points below that category average (35/100 vs. 97.7/100), so it is a comparatively weaker pick 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
Fruit & Cream Variety Pack Instant Oatmeal lists 63 ingredients on its label
63 100th percentile a longer ingredient list than every other product we track
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more products. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Distribution as text
- 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.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
How the 35/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (3 flagged of 63 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
strawberries , cream: whole grain rolled oats, sugar, artificially wheat flavored apple pieces (dried apples treated with citric acid and sodium sulfite to promote color retention, artificial flavor, red 40), creaming agent (maltodextrin, vegetable oil [soybean oil and/or coconut oil and/or canola oil and/or sunflower oil], whey, sodium caseinate [a milk derivativej potassium phosphate), oat flour (whole), contains less than 2% of: salt, calcium carbonate (a source of calcium), natural and artificial flavors, guar gum, citric acid, ferric phosphate (a source of iron), vitamin a palmitate, niacinamide**, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin b,**, riboflavin**, thiamine mononitrate** folic acid**, blueberries , cream: whole grain rolled oats, sugar, blueberry flavored and colored fig pieces (dried figs, dried corn syrup solids, modified food starch, sugar, dextrose, flavored blueberry juice concentrate, glycerin, natural flavor, canola oil, citric acid, blue 2 lake, red 40 lake), oat flour (whole), creaming agent (maltodextrin, vegetable oil [soybean oil and/or coconut oil and/or canola oil and/or sunflower oil], whey, sodium caseinate [a mìlk derivative], potassium phosphate), contains less than 2% of: salt, calcium carbonate (a source of calcium), guar gum, ferric phosphate (a source of iron), vitamin a palmitate, niacinamide, natural flavor, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin b,)**, riboflavin**, thiamine mononitrate**, folic acid, peaches , cream: whole grain rolled oats, sugar, flavored apple pieces (dried apples [treated with sodium sulfite to promote color retention], artificial flavor, citric acid, annatto [color), oat flour (whole), creaming agent (maltodextrin, vegetable oil [soybean oil and/or coconut oil and/or canola oil and/or sunflower oi̇l], whey, sodium caseinate [a milk derivative], potassium phospháte), contains less than 2% of: salt, calcium carbonate (a source of calcium), guar gum, ferric phosphate (a source of iron), artificial flavor, vitamin a palmitate, niacinamide**, pyridoxine hydrochlořide (vitamin b6)** riboflavin**, thiamine mononitrate**, folic acid**, bananas ,cream: whole grain rolled oats, sugar, oat flour (whole), creaming agent (maltodextrin, vegetable oil [soybean oil and/or coconut oil and/or canola oil and/or sunflower oil], whey, sodium caseinate a milk derivativej, potassium phosphate), contains less than 2% of: salt, calcium carbonate (a source of calcium), banana flake powder, guar gum, ferric phosphate (a source of iron), vitamin a palmitate, niacinamide**, natural , artificial flavor, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin b)**, riboflavin, thiamine mononitrate**, folic acid*, **one of the b vitamins, contains milk,
Categories
More from Great Value
Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Fruit & Cream Variety Pack Instant Oatmeal
Neighbours outside Great Value in the same lower screening band as Fruit & Cream Variety Pack Instant Oatmeal (35/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Great Value; these peers cross brands.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (3 flagged of 63 on 0078742035512).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (63 on 0078742035512).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Blue 2 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Fruit & Cream Variety Pack Instant Oatmeal's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 63-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Blue 2. Open Blue 2
- Compare Fruit & Cream Variety Pack Instant Oatmeal's 3 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 0078742035512: 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.