Frosted Whole Grain Oat Cereal with Marshmallows

Breakdown

Ultra-processed · 8 ingredients to avoid

Great Value Frosted Whole Grain Oat Cereal with Marshmallows scores 5/100 on Tallow — our avoid band. That number comes from what is on the label: the ingredients, how processed it is, and what it is packaged in. Per serving it carries 2g fiber, 3g protein and 17g sugar. 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.

Great Value Frosted Whole Grain Oat Cereal with Marshmallows lists 27 ingredients, starting with Whole Grain Oat Flour, Sugar, Corn Syrup, Wheat Starch and Modified Corn Starch. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

160 kcal per serving, or 381 kcal per 100g. Calories are only part of the picture — Tallow scores Great Value Frosted Whole Grain Oat Cereal with Marshmallows on what the ingredients are, not how many calories they carry.

At 5/100 Great Value Frosted Whole Grain Oat Cereal with Marshmallows scores worse than most cereal we have scored. A higher-scoring option in cereal is Kavanagh's Organic Jumbo Porridge Oats at 100/100.