Fruit & grain cereal bar
Fruit & grain cereal bar by Kroger has 11 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.9 out of 5, 0.22 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
- Safety score 0.22 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
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How This Score Is Built
Fruit & grain cereal bar 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). 11 of its 11 tracked ingredients are 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 Fruit & grain cereal bar sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3.9 Top 81% higher than 19% 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
Blueberry flavored filling (sugar, glycerin, corn syrup, blueberry puree, apple puree [apples, ascorbic acid, potassium sorbate], maltodextrin, polydextrose, water, apple powder, pectin, xanthan gum, sodium alginate, sodium citrate, mono & diglycerides, citric acid, malic acid, dicalcium phosphate, natural flavor, red 40, blue 1, yellow 6), whole oat flour, enriched bleached flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), canola and/or soybean oil, whole wheat flour, soluble corn fiber, invert sugar, whole rolled oat, sugar, fructose, molasses, whey powder, baking powder (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate, corn starch, monocalcium phosphate, calcium sulfate), sodium bicarbonate, cellulose gum, honey, salt, guar gum, soy lecithin, sodium propionate, wheat gluten, liquid whole eggs, natural flavor, caramel color, annatto (for color), vitamin a palmitate, calcium carbonate, niacinamide, reduced iron, zinc oxide, pyridoxine, hydrochlorid
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Fruit & grain cereal bar: 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.
Similar mean additive safety
Nearest products by average mapped safety score. This record: 3.9/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 11.
Product Details
- Brand
- Kroger
- Barcode
- 0011110869890
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Fruit & grain cereal bar's safety score compare to other products?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Fruit & grain cereal bar's 3.9/5 average puts it in the lower 81%, 0.22 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 3.9/5 ingredient safety score mean?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Fruit & grain cereal bar's 3.9/5 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.