Cereal
Cereal by Kashi has 1 tracked ingredient, with an overall safety score of 5 out of 5, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
- Safety score 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
How This Score Is Built
Cereal draws on FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research, combined into a single editorially-derived 1-5 scale (never an official government rating). 1 of its 1 tracked ingredient is scored so far; data as of 2026-09-07.
Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records feed this score. The FDA site → has the primary record; our methodology page explains the scoring.
Where Cereal sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
5 Top 15% higher than 85% of 58,710 scored products
Average ingredient safety score (1 = highest risk, 5 = safest), bucketed by value
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Source PlainIngredients ingredient safety index · 2026-09-07
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
Ultra-processed products are formulations made mostly or entirely from substances derived from foods and additives. They typically contain ingredients not commonly used in home cooking.
Full Ingredients List
whole grain purple corn flour*, whole grain yellow corn flour*, cane 'sugar*, brown rice flour*, chickpea flour*, invert cane syrup*, oat fiber*, apple puree concentrate*, vegetable glycerin, expeller pressed sunflower oil*, salt, berry powder* (blueberry*, cranberry*), baking soda strawberry puree*, strawberry juice concentrate*, citric acid, natural flavors, beet juice concentrate* for color, mixed tocopherols (vitamin e) for freshness, organic
Product Details
- Brand
- Kashi
- Barcode
- 0018627107927
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Cereal's safety score compare to other products?
Cereal scores 5 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, safer than 85% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 5/5 rating on Cereal?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Cereal's mapped ingredients average out to 5/5, which is the Generally Safe tier.
Every figure on PlainIngredients is rendered directly from FDA, EU, EFSA and U.S. state regulatory records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.