Fruit & Cream Variety Pack Instant Oatmeal
by Great Value
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0078742431727 · Great Value. 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 75/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 62 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 62-component record, beginning with 50mog Folic Acid, 50mcg Folic Acid, Whole Gran Rolled Oats. 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.
- 75/100
- Caution safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 62 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- 0078742431727
- 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
53/100
Grade C-
Ingredient Safety
75/100
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.
42431727 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Fruit & Cream Variety Pack Instant Oatmeal label screening desk
12 of 62 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Red 40). Source sheet 42431727 · 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: Kiwi strawberry · Nearest score peer is Kiwi strawberry 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.
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
Ingredient-list length vs every product we publish
Fruit & Cream Variety Pack Instant Oatmeal lists 62 ingredients on its label
62 99th percentile a longer ingredient list than 99% of the 359,392 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
- 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 75/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 62 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
20% 20% 0.34mg 20% 0.34mg 80mog dfe 20% 80mcg dfe 20% 80mcg dfe 20% 80mcg dfe 20p% (50mog folic acid) (50mcg folic acid) (50mcg folic acid) (50mcg folic acid) 8% 90mg vitamin be 0.34mg 20% 0.34mg 20% folate phosphorus 90mg magnesium 8% 90mg 8% 100mg 8% 25mg 6% 30mg 8% 25mg 6% 30mg 8% ngredients strawberries&cream: whole gran rolled oats, sugar, artacally flavored apple pieces (dried apples treated with citric acd and sodum sulfie to promote color retention, artificial flavor, red 40, creaming agent maltodextrin, vegetable oil isoybean oil andior coconut olandior canola oil andor sunflower ol whey, sodium caseinate ja milk derivative potassium phosphate, oat flour (whole), contains less than 2% of salt calcum carbonate asource of caloum matural and artificialflavors, guar gum, citric acid, ferric phosphate (a source of iron), vitamin a palmitate nacnamde" pyrdone hiydrochloride itamnb riborlavin", thiamine mononitrate, folic acid. blueberries&cream: whole grain rolled oats, sugar blueberry flavored and colored figs pieces (dried figs, dried corn syrup solids, modified food starch, sugar, dextrose, flavored bluberry juice concentrate glycerin natural flavor canola oil otric acd blue 2 lake red 40 lake), oat flour (whole), creaming agent (maltodextrin, vegetable oil isoybean oil andior coconut oilandior canola olandior sunflower oil, whey, sodium caseinate ja milk dervatve, potassium phosphate), contains less than 2% of: salt, calcum carbonate asource of calcum, guar gum, ferric phosphate (a source of iron), vitamin a palmitate, niacinamide“, natural flavor, pyridoxine hydrochloride nitamin briboflan thamine mononitrate folic acid". peaches&cream: whole grain rolled oats, sugar, flavored apple pieces (dried apples treated with sodiom sulftie to promote color retention, artificial flavor, citric acid, annatto [color), oat flour (whole), creaming agent (maltodextrin, vegetable ol soybean oilandor coconut ol andior canola oil and/or sunflower oil), whey, sodiom caseinate (a milk dernátive, potassium phosphate), contains less thain 2% of salt, calcum carbonate a source of caloum, guar gum, ferric phosphate (a source of iron, artificial flavor, vitamin a palmitate, niacinamide pirdoine hyorochlorde mtaminb rbofla thamine mononitrate", folic acid. bananas &cream: whole grain rolled oats, sugar, oat flour nhole creaming agent (maltodextrin, vegetable oil isoybean oil and/or coconut oil and/or cañola oil andor sunflower oll whey, sodium casenate ja milk dernatime potassium phosphate) contains less than 2% of: salt caloum carbonate a source of calcium, banana flake powder, guar gum ferric phosphate (a source of iron), vitamnapalmitate macinamde natural &artiricial flavor, pyridoxine hydrochloride mtamin b", riboflavin", hamine mononitrate folicacd."one of the b vitamins contains milk
More from Great Value
Mid-score cross-brand comparables for Fruit & Cream Variety Pack Instant Oatmeal
Neighbours outside Great Value near Fruit & Cream Variety Pack Instant Oatmeal's mid-band score (75/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Great Value; these peers cross brands.
Same mid-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 62 on 0078742431727).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (62 on 0078742431727).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Red 40 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 62-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Red 40. Open Red 40
- Compare Fruit & Cream Variety Pack Instant Oatmeal'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 0078742431727: 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.