Trix cereal bar
Trix cereal bar by General Mills 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.
- Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
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 Trix cereal bar, 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 Trix cereal bar 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
gradie whole grain oats, cereal (whole grain corn, corn meal, rice flour, sugar, corn syrup, cancla and/or sunflower oil, able and fruit juice, annatto extract, turmeric extract salt trisodium phosphate, natural flavor, citric acid, malic acid. color ve nerals calcium carbonate, tricalcium phosphate, vitamin c (sodium ascorbate), iron and zinc (mineral nutionie) niacinamide), vitamin b6 [pyridoxine hydrochloride], vitamin b₁ [thiamin mononitrate], vitamin a [palmitate), vitamin & b vitamin [folic acid], vitamin b₁2, vitamin d3), corn syrup, sugar, fructose, canola oil, whole wheat flour, a b₂ (rib root extract, maltodextrin. contains 2% or less of: brown rice flour, vegetable glycerin, calcium carbonate, whole comour, whole oat flour, wheat starch, salt, soy lecithin, natural flavor, baking soda. vitamin a b vit chic coains wheat and soy ingredients. learn more at ask.generalmills.com die by general mills sales, inc., minneapolis, mn 55440 usa contains bioengineered od ingredients
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Trix 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: 4/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 3.
Product Details
- Brand
- General Mills
- Barcode
- 0016000319158
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Trix cereal bar's safety score compare to other products?
With an average ingredient safety score of 4/5, Trix cereal bar 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?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Trix cereal bar'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.