Kroger NOVA 4

Strawberries & cream instant oatmeal packets

Strawberries & cream instant oatmeal packets: 3.9/5 ingredient safety

Strawberries & cream instant oatmeal packets by Kroger has 8 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, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.

  • Safety score 0.22 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

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. 8 of 8 ingredients tracked for Strawberries & cream instant oatmeal packets 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 Strawberries & cream instant oatmeal packets 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

3.9
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 3.9 out of 5
Based on 8 tracked ingredients
8
Tracked Ingredients
1
Concerning
7
Low Risk / Safe
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Nutri-Score
1 ingredient flagged for safety concerns

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

4
NOVA Group 4
Ultra-processed foods

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

rolled oats, sugar, fruit pieces (dehydrated apples, artificial flavor, calcium stearate (flow agent), citric acid, red 40, sodium sulfite [to promote color retention), corn syrup solids palm cil salt, calcium carbonate, natur icial flavors, sodium case phosp mono-and ciglicerides, sodium aluminosilicate, ferric orthophosphate, vitamin a palmitate, niacinamide, riboflavin, titanium dioxide (for color), thiamine mononitrate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid. rimative), dipotassium milk, citric acid, contains: milk.

Compare beyond brand

Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth

Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Strawberries & cream instant oatmeal packets: 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
Kroger
Barcode
0011110025838
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Strawberries & cream instant oatmeal packets rank on ingredient safety?

With an average ingredient safety score of 3.9/5, Strawberries & cream instant oatmeal packets sits behind 81% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.22 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What's behind the 3.9/5 rating on Strawberries & cream instant oatmeal packets?

PlainIngredients scores each ingredient 1 (highest risk) to 5 (safest) from FDA and EU regulatory status, then averages the scores of every ingredient this product lists that we could map. A 3.9/5 average places Strawberries & cream instant oatmeal packets 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.