Safe

Irish style oats

by Country Choice

Open Food Facts label for barcode 2000000002705 · Country Choice · Breakfasts. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 2000000002705 · Serving size 1/4 cup dry (40g)

The verdict

Irish style oats by Country Choice scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 1 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. Its short parsed label begins Whole Grain Steel Cut Oats, so the useful next step is to inspect those few components directly rather than infer from the composite score. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.

100/100
Safe safety score
0
None flagged · of 1 analyzed
A
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

100/100

Grade A+

Ingredient Safety

100/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

N/A

NOVA food-processing classification

Nutrition Grade

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.

00002705 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Irish style oats label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 100/100 FLAG-CLEAN 0 flagged LEN-SHORT 1 ing. REG-SPARSE 0% reg. NOVA-UNK NOVA n/a NUTRI-A Nutri-A RANK-LONG Len top 100% PHOTO-FINISH Bone broth powder · ±0 BOOK-OFF …002705 · July 2026

None of the 1 parsed ingredients appear in FDA SAFFA or CSPI — absence of evidence, not a clean bill. Source sheet 00002705 · 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: Bone broth powder · Nearest score peer is Bone broth powder 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.

Nutri-Score placed this label in its highest band. The model reaches that grade when the credit side of its ledger — fibre, protein and the fruit, vegetable and legume fraction — outweighs the energy, sugar, saturated-fat and sodium it counts against a product. The scale is computed per hundred grams from the declared nutrition panel, which is why two products with similar ingredients can grade differently on portion-heavy categories. It is a nutritional summary only, calculated independently of the additive registries screened further down this page, and it neither incorporates nor contradicts them.

The declared list parsed into a small number of components. On a short list the registry screen covers close to everything the packaging declares, and any single matched component accounts for a correspondingly large share of the composite. Short lists also leave less room for parsing error, since there are fewer separators and qualifiers for the extraction to resolve.

Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood

1. Irish style oats: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Irish style oats100/1002. Bone broth powder: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Bone broth powder100/1003. Dulce de lecha: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Dulce de lecha100/1004. Snickers: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Snickers100/1005. Big Mac: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Big Mac100/100
High-band neighbours for Irish style oats (100/100) outside Country Choice.
Chart values as text

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

Irish style oats
100/100
Bone broth powder
100/100
Dulce de lecha
100/100
Snickers
100/100
Big Mac
100/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 6,763 products we've scored in the Breakfasts category, the average safety score is 96.8/100. Irish style oats scores 3.2 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 96.8/100), 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 Breakfasts products

Irish style oats lists 1 ingredient on its label

1 0th percentile a longer ingredient list than 0% of the 320 products we track

0–2: 63 products (20%). This entry sits in this band. 2–4: 67 products (21%). Above this entry. 4–6: 28 products (9%). Above this entry. 6–8: 25 products (8%). Above this entry. 8–10: 20 products (6%). Above this entry. 10–12: 30 products (9%). Above this entry. 12–14: 16 products (5%). Above this entry. 14–16: 20 products (6%). Above this entry. 16–18: 5 products (2%). Above this entry. 18–20: 10 products (3%). Above this entry. 20–22: 4 products (1%). Above this entry. 22–24: 2 products (1%). Above this entry. 24–26: 4 products (1%). Above this entry. 26–28: 2 products (1%). Above this entry. 28–30: 2 products (1%). Above this entry. 30–32: 3 products (1%). Above this entry. 32–34: 3 products (1%). Above this entry. 36–38: 3 products (1%). Above this entry. 38–40: 2 products (1%). Above this entry. 40–42: 11 products (3%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Breakfasts product, bucketed by value

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

320 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 1 (0th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
63 products (20%)
2–4
67 products (21%)
4–6
28 products (9%)
6–8
25 products (8%)
8–10
20 products (6%)
10–12
30 products (9%)
12–14
16 products (5%)
14–16
20 products (6%)
16–18
5 products (2%)
18–20
10 products (3%)
20–22
4 products (1%)
22–24
2 products (1%)
24–26
4 products (1%)
26–28
2 products (1%)
28–30
2 products (1%)
30–32
3 products (1%)
32–34
3 products (1%)
36–38
3 products (1%)
38–40
2 products (1%)
40 and above
11 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 320 Breakfasts 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

Full Ingredient List

Organic whole grain steel cut _oats_

Categories

Breakfasts

High-score cross-brand comparables for Irish style oats

Neighbours outside Country Choice with screening scores in the same high band as Irish style oats (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Country Choice; these peers cross brands.

Same high-band screening score

Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (100/100 here, no caution flags on the parsed list).

Check the compact label closely

Check the compact label closely

Irish style oats has a shorter ingredient list than 100% of its Breakfasts category comparison set. A short list is descriptive, not a safety verdict, so inspect the named ingredients directly.

  • Start with the parsed ingredient profiles and review the source-backed context behind this compact list. Inspect ingredients
  • Compare another barcode with a similarly short ingredient list. Compare labels
  • Check how the screening method treats registry matches and unmatched ingredients. Read the method

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

Barcode 2000000002705: 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.