Cereal Bars
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0078742075044 · Wal-Mart Stores Inc. · Snacks. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Cereal Bars by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. scores 80/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 43 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 2 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 43-component record, beginning with Cereal, Rice, Rolled Wheat. 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.
- 80/100
- Caution safety score
- 2
- Few flagged · of 43 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
53/100
Grade C-
Ingredient Safety
80/100
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.
42075044 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Cereal Bars label screening desk
21 of 43 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: BHT). Source sheet 42075044 · 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: Sliced Turkey Pastrami · Nearest score peer is Sliced Turkey Pastrami 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 second band of the four-tier framework. That band collects labels whose registry-rated components pull the derived score down measurably without dominating it. Position inside a band is not visible from the band name, and two labels sharing it can differ in how many components were rated and how severely. This is a threshold on an index computed here from public data, not a regulatory classification of any kind; the exact cut-offs are published 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.
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 88,006 products we've scored in the Snacks category, the average safety score is 86.1/100. Cereal Bars scores 6.1 points below that category average (80/100 vs. 86.1/100), 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 Snacks products
Cereal Bars lists 43 ingredients on its label
43 92nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 92% of the 81,477 products 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
- 275 products (0%)
- 2–4
- 2,901 products (4%)
- 4–6
- 4,248 products (5%)
- 6–8
- 5,408 products (7%)
- 8–10
- 5,486 products (7%)
- 10–12
- 5,840 products (7%)
- 12–14
- 6,252 products (8%)
- 14–16
- 6,724 products (8%)
- 16–18
- 6,221 products (8%)
- 18–20
- 5,168 products (6%)
- 20–22
- 4,508 products (6%)
- 22–24
- 3,809 products (5%)
- 24–26
- 3,567 products (4%)
- 26–28
- 2,829 products (3%)
- 28–30
- 2,282 products (3%)
- 30–32
- 1,905 products (2%)
- 32–34
- 1,715 products (2%)
- 34–36
- 1,572 products (2%)
- 36–38
- 1,417 products (2%)
- 38–40
- 1,284 products (2%)
- 40 and above
- 8,066 products (10%)
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 81,477 Snacks 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 80/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 43 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Cereal (rice, rolled wheat, sugar, salt, barley malt), chicory root extract (inulin), corn syrup, yogurt coating (sugar, partially hydrogenated palm kernel oil, lactose, whey powder, nonfat yogurt powder, soy lecithin, vanilla extract), sugar, strawberry flavored fruit pieces (sugar, cranberries, citric acid, natural strawberry flavor with other natural flavors, elderberry juice concentrate, sunflower oil), fructose, palm oil, glycerin, contains less than 2% of the following: sorbitol, salt, natural flavors, soy lecithin, maltodextrin, calcium carbonate, palm kernel oil, vitamin a palmitate, cholecalciferol, folic acid, ascorbic acid, niacinamide, pyridoxine hydrochloride, riboflavin, thiamine mononitrate, ferric phosphate, caramel color, strawberry juice concentrate, bht, peanut flour.
Other products containing Natural Strawberry Flavored Fruit Pieces
Natural Strawberry Flavored Fruit Pieces is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 17 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Cereal Bars
Neighbours outside Wal-Mart Stores Inc. with screening scores in the same high band as Cereal Bars (80/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Wal-Mart Stores Inc.; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (2 flagged of 43 on 0078742075044).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (43 on 0078742075044).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
BHT is the first flagged ingredient selected from Cereal Bars's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 43-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to BHT. Open BHT
- Compare Cereal Bars's 2 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 0078742075044: 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.