Cheerios Veggie Blends Apple Strawberry Sweetened Oat & Corn Cereal
Cheerios Veggie Blends Apple Strawberry Sweetened Oat & Corn Cereal by General Mills has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
- Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Plant-based foods and beverages / Plant-based foods / Breakfasts / Cereals and potatoes / Cereals and their products / Breakfast cereals / Sweetened-oat-corn-cereal
How This Score Is Built
PlainIngredients safety scores are a transparent, editorially-derived index synthesizing FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research into a single 1-5 scale, not an official government rating. 2 of 2 ingredients tracked for Cheerios Veggie Blends Apple Strawberry Sweetened Oat & Corn Cereal have a scored rating so far. Data current as of 2026-09-07.
Sourced from Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records. Verify with the FDA → See our full scoring methodology.
Where Cheerios Veggie Blends Apple Strawberry Sweetened Oat & Corn Cereal sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4 Top 80% higher than 20% 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 Oats, Corn Meal, Sugar, Sweet Potato Powder, Corn Starch, Carrot Powder, Canola and/or Sunflower Oil, Strawberry Puree, Apple Puree, Corn Syrup, Salt, Spinach Powder, Color (Fruit and Vegetable Juice, Annatto Extract), Tripotassium Phosphate, Natural Flavor, Vitamin E (mixed Tocopherols) added to preserve freshness, Vitamins and Minerals: Calcium Carbonate, Iron and Zinc (Mineral Nutrients), Vitamin C (Sodium Ascorbate), A B Vitamin (Niacinamide), Vitamin B₆ (Pyridoxine Hydrochloride), Vitamin B₁ (Thiamin Mononitrate), Vitamin A (Palmitate), Vitamin B₂ (Riboflavin), A B Vitamin (Folic Acid), Vitamin B₁₂, Vitamin D₃
Product Details
- Brand
- General Mills
- Barcode
- 0016000222335
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
- Stores
- ShopRite
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Cheerios Veggie Blends Apple Strawberry Sweetened Oat & Corn Cereal rank on ingredient safety?
With an average ingredient safety score of 4/5, Cheerios Veggie Blends Apple Strawberry Sweetened Oat & Corn Cereal sits behind 80% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 4/5 ingredient safety score mean?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Cheerios Veggie Blends Apple Strawberry Sweetened Oat & Corn Cereal's 4/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it in the Low Risk 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.