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Cheerios Cheerios

Cheerios

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Common questions

Is Cheerios healthy?

Cheerios scores 90/100 on Tallow — our clean band. That number comes from what is on the label: the ingredients, how processed it is, and what it is packaged in. It is not a verdict on your diet — Tallow does not weigh calories, portion size or how often you eat it, so a high score means the ingredients are clean, not that the food is unlimited.

What is in Cheerios?

Cheerios lists 6 ingredients, starting with Whole Grain Oats, Corn Starch, Sugar, Salt and Tripotassium Phosphate. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

Does Cheerios contain seed oils?

No. Nothing in Cheerios’s ingredient list matches a seed oil — canola, soybean, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, sunflower, safflower, rice bran or peanut oil, or an unspecified "vegetable oil".

How processed is Cheerios?

We don’t have a NOVA classification on file for Cheerios yet, so the processing axis scores it neutrally.

How does Cheerios compare to other cereal?

At 90/100 Cheerios sits in our top band, among the better cereal we have scored. A higher-scoring option in cereal is Kavanagh's Organic Jumbo Porridge Oats at 100/100.

Is Cheerios organic?

Cheerios is not certified organic in our data.

Has Cheerios been lab tested?

Not yet. No independent lab has published results for Cheerios, so its score is based on its ingredient list, processing and packaging alone.

Full methodology: how we score products.

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