Safe

Quick - Cooking Oats

by Australia Harvest

Open Food Facts label for barcode 4800030270109 · Australia Harvest · Food additives. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 4800030270109 · Serving size 30g

The verdict

Quick - Cooking Oats by Australia Harvest 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 100% Whole Grain 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
Group 1
Unprocessed
4800030270109
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

100/100

Grade A+

Ingredient Safety

100/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 1

Unprocessed or minimally processed

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.

30270109 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Quick - Cooking Oats label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 100/100 FLAG-CLEAN 0 flagged LEN-SHORT 1 ing. REG-SPARSE 0% reg. NOVA-G1 G1 unprocessed NUTRI-NA Nutri n/a RANK-LONG Len top 100% PHOTO-FINISH Sweet Potato Paradise · ±0 BOOK-OFF …270109 · July 2026

None of the 1 parsed ingredients appear in FDA SAFFA or CSPI — absence of evidence, not a clean bill. Source sheet 30270109 · 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: Sweet Potato Paradise · Nearest score peer is Sweet Potato Paradise 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 is not defined for this product's category. The model excludes certain categories by design — among them plain waters, herbs, teas and coffees, and some single-ingredient products — rather than attempting a grade and failing. No nutritional band therefore accompanies the additive screen on this page, and its absence is a property of the category rather than a finding about this particular label. The registry screen below is unaffected by the exclusion and covers additive ratings as normal.

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. Quick - Cooking Oats: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Quick - Cooking Oats100/1002. Sweet Potato Paradise: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Sweet Potato Paradise100/1003. HOLA PIÑA: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. HOLA PIÑA100/1004. Soft Baked Cookies Peanut Butter: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Soft Baked Cookies Peanut…100/1005. Chocolate Chip Cookies: 100/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Chocolate Chip Cookies100/100
High-band neighbours for Quick - Cooking Oats (100/100) outside Australia Harvest.
Chart values as text

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

Quick - Cooking Oats
100/100
Sweet Potato Paradise
100/100
HOLA PIÑA
100/100
Soft Baked Cookies Peanut Butter
100/100
Chocolate Chip Cookies
100/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 322 products we've scored in the Food additives category, the average safety score is 90.2/100. Quick - Cooking Oats scores 9.8 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 90.2/100), so it is a comparatively strong pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.

Ingredient-list length vs other Food additives products

Quick - Cooking Oats lists 1 ingredient on its label

1 0th percentile a longer ingredient list than 0% of the 101 products we track

0–2: 3 products (3%). This entry sits in this band. 2–4: 32 products (32%). Above this entry. 4–6: 13 products (13%). Above this entry. 6–8: 10 products (10%). Above this entry. 8–10: 14 products (14%). Above this entry. 10–12: 8 products (8%). Above this entry. 12–14: 8 products (8%). Above this entry. 14–16: 3 products (3%). Above this entry. 16–18: 5 products (5%). Above this entry. 18–20: 1 products (1%). Above this entry. 20–22: 3 products (3%). Above this entry. 22–24: 1 products (1%). Above this entry. This product 0 24 every published Food additives 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

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

0–2
3 products (3%)
2–4
32 products (32%)
4–6
13 products (13%)
6–8
10 products (10%)
8–10
14 products (14%)
10–12
8 products (8%)
12–14
8 products (8%)
14–16
3 products (3%)
16–18
5 products (5%)
18–20
1 products (1%)
20–22
3 products (3%)
22 and above
1 products (1%)

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 101 Food additives 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

1
100% Whole Grain Oats

Full Ingredient List

100% Whole Grain Oats

Other products containing 100% Whole Grain Oats

100% Whole Grain Oats is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 11 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.

Categories

Food additives Yeast

High-score cross-brand comparables for Quick - Cooking Oats

Neighbours outside Australia Harvest with screening scores in the same high band as Quick - Cooking Oats (100/100 here). No other Australia Harvest products are linked from this barcode; these peers compare across brands only.

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

Quick - Cooking Oats has a shorter ingredient list than 100% of its Food additives 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
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  • 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 4800030270109: 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.