Product Insight: Rice Crisps
Rice Crisps by Quaker Oats is tracked in PlainIngredients with 13 identified ingredients and carries an overall safety rating of 4.1 out of 5 — a Low-Risk-to-Safe tier backed by FDA and EU regulatory status. On the NOVA processing scale, this product falls into Group 4 (Ultra-processed foods), a standard framework for classifying how heavily food has been industrially modified before reaching the shelf, and no Nutri-Score label has been assigned by Open Food Facts contributors. Within the identified ingredient list, 1 ingredient is currently flagged as Caution or High Risk and warrant individual review via the linked ingredient pages, while 12 ingredients sit at the Low-Risk or Safe end of the scale.
Our composite score weighs each ingredient's U.S. FDA regulatory status (GRAS, Approved, or Banned), European Union food-additive status under Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, any U.S. state-level restrictions, and signals drawn from peer-reviewed toxicology literature. The per-product score is the mean of the per-ingredient ratings and should be read as a structured summary rather than a clinical verdict; edge cases such as cumulative exposure, individual allergies, and dietary interactions are not captured by a single number and are better addressed by reading the individual ingredient pages linked below.
Sources: Open Food Facts (product + ingredient list, CC0 licensed) · FDA SAFFA · EU Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 · U.S. state food-safety statutes
- Monosodium Glutamate — Safety score: 2/5
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 brown rice flour, degerminated milled corn, sunflower oil, sugar, salt, dry whey flavorfo gar, onion powder, molasses, buttermilk powder, yeast extract, spices. tomato (dried), garlic powder, citric acid, natural tural flavors (foo00001008-6) facts bag (19g) contains milk ingredients. (16924-17) 08 contains milk ingredients. ily value* %0% (16930-12) disoides, tocopherols (preservative), qum arabic, disodium phosphate, tricalcium phosphate, yellow 5 iake, disodium inosinate, guanylate, red 40 lake, yellow 6 lake. 1% contains milk ingredients. do not heat in toaster or microwave. citric acid, dry whey, spices, dipotassium phosphate, malic acid, sodium acetate, natural flavor, sodium diacetate, mono and corn maltodextrin, palm oil, tomato powder, corr syrup solids, dextrose, onion powder, monosodium glutamate, garlic powder, sugar, buttermilk ranch ingredients: whole grain brown rice flour, degerminated milled corn, sunflower oil, salt, buttermilk powder, cheddar ingredients:
Data Sources
- Open Food Facts — Product data and ingredient lists
- FDA Substances Added to Food (SAFFA) Inventory — Safety scores
- EU Food Additive Regulations (EC) No 1333/2008
Product Details
- Brand
- Quaker Oats
- Barcode
- 0030000567074
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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