Quaker Nutri-Score A NOVA 1

Corn Meal

Corn Meal: 4/5 ingredient safety

Corn Meal by Quaker has 3 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is A.

  • Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 1

Plant-based foods and beverages / Plant-based foods / Cereals and potatoes / Cereals and their products / Flours / Cereal flours / Cooking helpers / Cornmeal

How This Score Is Built

This 1-5 scale is an editorially-derived index, not an official government rating -- it synthesizes FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research. For Corn Meal, 3 of its 3 tracked ingredients carry a scored rating so far, current as of 2026-09-07.

Data draws on Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records -- cross-check with the FDA → directly, or read how we score it.

Where Corn Meal 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

4
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 4 out of 5
Based on 3 tracked ingredients
3
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
3
Low Risk / Safe
A
Nutri-Score

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

1
NOVA Group 1
Unprocessed or minimally processed

Unprocessed or minimally processed foods are whole foods that have been altered only by removal of inedible parts, drying, crushing, filtering, or pasteurization.

Full Ingredients List

degerminated yellow corn meal, niacin*, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate*, riboflavin*, folic acid*,*one of the b vitamins

Compare beyond brand

Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth

Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Corn Meal: nearest mean mapped additive safety score and nearest mapped ingredient count among indexable products with at least 3 scored additives, excluding same-brand siblings. Scores describe regulatory and research signals on additives, not dietary advice.

Product Details

Brand
Quaker
Barcode
0030000030509
Nutri-Score
Grade A
NOVA Group
1 — Unprocessed or minimally processed
Available In
France,United States

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Frequently asked questions

How does Corn Meal's safety score compare to other products?

Corn Meal scores 4 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 80% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with 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?

The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Corn Meal's mapped ingredients average out to 4/5, which is 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.